Pete's Log: old habits...
Entry #1374, (Coding, Hacking, & CS stuff)(posted when I was 26 years old.)
When I was up in Portsmouth for SPECTRUM training, we used Sun workstations. It took me mere minutes to become accustomed again to having the control key in the home row. Today is my third day back at work and I'm still hitting caps lock instead of control. I find it amusing that after just one week back on a Sun keyboard, my old brain wiring has taken such firm control again.
So obviously there is only one real solution: remap caps lock to control. I've got four machines at work, and four of them are Windows machines. So definitely need to figure out how to remap on Windows. A google search reveals many programs you can install that will perform this remapping for you. But I also found this, which I prefer over installing yet more software: you need to add a "Scancode Map" value to the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout" registry key. The easiest way is to create a file called ctrl.reg with the following:
REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00
Then run that file. Of course, it's much simpler in Linux, and of course you have to reboot Windows after making the change to the registry...