How to remap Windows PC keys using PowerToys
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Maybe at some point you have been interested in modifying the keys on your computer with which you access certain functions. A way to improve usability and optimize work, saving what can be a few valuable minutes. A process you can carry out using the PowerToys.
The popular set of Microsoft tools that can now be downloaded from the Microsoft Store, allow among all the options that we can remap the PC keyswith Windows. We can change the way in which we access different functions of some of them with very few steps.
Choose the function for each key
We can download the PowerToys from this link in the Microsoft Store or from this other link in Github, where version 0.47.1 of the PowerToys appears. The installation process is very simple and we already saw it in its day, but to summarize it, it is enough to download the tool with the .msi extension if we use Github so that it can be open a window and start the installation process.
We will click on the Next button, we will choose where to install the tools and also if we want to create shortcuts. Click on the Install button to start the installation."
"With the PowerToys installed, simply enter the Settings menu and in the left column we look at thesection Keyboard Manager on which we will click."
At that point we click on the option that appears to the right of the box Reassign a key to remap the keys we want. A new window will open."
A new window opens with a list that appears blank if we don&39;t have remapped keys, which is what we are going to do. For that we must click on the icon + located at the bottom left."
In this way we will start a new remapping so that we will see a window with two columns In the one on the left we will select the key that we want to remap and in the one on the right we choose the functionality that we want the key to have from that moment on.
In this way we can change the functions of the keys of our PC and replace the functionalities with which it has left the factory. In addition, this method is an alternative to the own tools that each manufacturer can add to their computers.
