Utility to remap keyboard keys?

[wrybread]

I just got a Thinkpad T530 to replace my aging T61 and am pleasantly surprised by how much I like it. Some of the newer Thinkpad keyboards and especially touchpads are relatively unsable, but not this one.

But I used to have a 3rd party Thinkpad hotkey remapper to do useful things with the Thinkvantage button and things like that, but I can't find it anymore. Does anyone have any tips on that?

I'd like to:

- remap the Thinkvantage button to fire a command

- ditto the mic mute button

- and if possible remap the F8 and F9 to brighten and dim the screen (without having to press the FN key).

Thanks for any help.

[wrybread]

Update: I figured out how to remap the Thinkvantage key by modifying a registry entry. For example, this registry file will make it so pressing the Thinkvantage button runs c:\monoff.exe, which turns off my monitor (gizmoware.net/monoff, download monoff.exe to the root of the C drive):

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IBM\TPHOTKEY\8001]
"File"="C:\\monoff.exe"

Works nicely.

I'd love to remap that mic mute button, but so far haven't figured out how. Anyone have any clues?

[jaspen-meyer]

The T530 section of the forum is better suited for your question about a T530.

[wrybread]

> The T530 section of the forum is better suited for your question about a T530.

Its pretty similar hardware, more similar than the T520 is to the T420. Not sure why the T530 isn't lumped in here.

But I see that there is in fact a T530 forum.

Oh well, the question equally applies to every laptop in this forum title.