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    Bad key placement: is it possible to change this?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by stucampbell, Apr 24, 2008.

  1. stucampbell

    stucampbell Notebook Guru

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    The thing that has frustrated more than anything about my M1530 is the key placement.

    The problem is that the context menu key is between the control key and the arrow keys. For me this is a show-stopper because when I'm programming - in fact when I'm typing anything - I am constantly using CTRL+Arrows. And now I keep hitting the context menu key, which brings up a menu and interrupts my typing.

    Is it possible to switch two keys somehow? Could I permanently re-map Context to Right-Ctrl and vice-versa. And can you actually move the physical keys so that the labels map to the correct functions?
     
    stucampbell, Apr 24, 2008
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