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Note to IBM

I have an IBM ThinkPad T41, which I love dearly.  I do have one little problem with it, however.  As a 'convenience' to the user, IBM put a 'page back' and a 'page forward' key in the crooks of the inverted T of the cursor keys to the lower right of the keyboard.  Unfortunately, it has happened to me more than once, when composing in the browser window, that I have hit the 'page back' key by accident when aiming for one of the arrow keys, only to see all my brilliant post or illuminating comment disappear, lost forever.  If there is an 'undo' for 'page back', please tell me what it is.

In fact, I just did that very thing to a very thoughtful post on the interplay of the movie 'What the Bleep do we Know?' (which I saw yesterday - see it!), last night's torrential rains.and this morning's sun on the slopes of Mt. Washington scores of miles to the west as I came out of the YMCA at Pineland.  Very profound post, but you'll never know - I'm not going to rewrite it.  IBM, you have deprived the world.

November 29, 2004 in Web/Tech | Permalink

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So frustrating! The world is indeed deprived...

Posted by: Ms. Feverish | Jan 9, 2005 11:03:18 PM

I have been looking for a way to disable that key for the very same reason. I will post you if I find it.

Posted by: dann webster | Feb 18, 2005 6:08:09 PM

I have the solution - found on Thinkpads.com

add a registry entry of the following:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,5b,e0,6a,e0,5c,e0,69,e0,\
00,00,00,00

It changes the function to the windows key function which is sorely missing from IBM keyboards

Posted by: Geoff | Jun 14, 2005 3:55:55 PM

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