Reassigning Fx (for x = 11,12, etc)

[mtucker]

Hi -

My ThinkPad was recently reformatted and set up with Windows XP. As part of that reconfiguration, I lost my custom mapping of the F12 key. For some time now, my PgDn key hasn't worked properly so I used some tool that came with my ThinkPad that let me bind F12 to the PgDn behavior. The problem is that I can't figure out how I did it. I am fairly certain that there was a utility in the Thinkvantage suite that let me do this, but I can't find it now. The only thing that I *can* find is the Keyboard Customizer, but it seems to lack this capability. Does anyone know of a tool in the IBM/Lenovo suite that will let me do this remapping?

Thanks,
Mike

[Binh]

Search for the Sharpkey tool. This small tool allows you to change registry for scancode mapping.

OK. I did it for you:
save this text as a reg file, for example F12toPgDn.reg:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,51,e0,58,00,00,00,00,00

Double click it to install to the registry. Then reboot the computer. That's all.

[mtucker]

Thanks for the suggestion. I will play around with that, though I am still convinced that when I did this in the past I used a supported tool from IBM/Lenovo. I guess no one else has come across it?

[dr_st]

The only IBM/Lenovo utility that I know of with related functionality is the Keyboard Customizer Utility, and it doesn't do anything like these things you mentioned...

[mtucker]

I am familiar with Keyboard Customizer, and I agree that it is definitely not the tool that I must have used. Perhaps I was mistaken and it was a third party utility that I used. I could have sworn, however, that I used some utility that I found after clicking the blue "ThinkVantage" button at the top of my keyboard.