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Old July 2nd 18, 03:45 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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JJ wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jul 2018 17:37:00 -0400, Nil wrote:
I still want to do it with they keyboard, though, as I could with
Win+D.


You could use a keyboard mapper software to map e.g. RightCtrl or RightAlt
to a Win key.


There's a few more suggestions here.

https://superuser.com/questions/3334...n-old-keyboard

Using something like osk.exe (On Screen Keyboard) isn't
really a pleasant answer. And re-mapping has the problem
of preventing something else from using the function later.
Although I don't remember Scroll Lock doing anything useful,
there might be situations where the LED is lit, you want to
turn it off, and because you remapped Scroll Lock, now
you cannot use it. A piece of tape over the LED will
take care of that :-)

If you were an "electronics hobbyist", you'd make
a keyboard PCB with a regular keyboard controller,
but only the Win key hooked up :-) Most of the
chip wouldn't need to be hooked up (the 7+17
scan wires, you'd only need two of those).

Paul
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