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Re:Windows 11½ by qlte on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:06PM (#49884340)
This is straightforward with Powertoys (official config utility from Microsoft) on Windows.
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Re:Windows 11½ by cess11 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:57AM (#49888442)
Why do you think that? Have you ever done it?
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Re:Windows 11½ by loicd on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:02AM (#49890213)
Not OP, but yes it works. I've used the 'Keyboard manager' tool from Powertoys to remap CapsLock to Esc. Never had a problem with it.
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Re:Windows 11½ by cess11 on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:55AM (#49910616)
OK, so I did this recently and it depends a lot on what software you're then running whether it works or not, and whether the keyboard will actually flip some Caps Lock switch somewhere regardless of being remapped.

ctrl2caps tends to break and activate Caps Lock, i.e. capital letters unless Shift is held.

This being Windows 11.

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