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Our computers have been upgraded to HP EliteBook 8570p machines and while they're very nice machines, they are also very large -- so large that the left Ctrl key is too far away, making Ctrl+V really difficult to do with one hand.

I'm sure there are ways to re-map the keys so that their signal is swapped. But add the factor of corporate security, is there still a reasonably simple approach to this?

I'm sure you'd like more information before you can answer -- I'll try to add updates based on comments and answers.

bwDraco
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Torben Gundtofte-Bruun
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It can't be done. Not without getting your hands dirty, that is opening up keyboards and swapping keys at the hardware level. Pressing the Fn-key changes the scancodes for other keys on the board, but is not reported to the operating system. For example, on a lot of notebook keyboards, pressing Fn-K will be registered as pressing an actual Numpad 2, even though that key might not physically exist. The operating system is fully unaware of any Fn-key and its presses can therefore not be remapped on a software level.

Marcks Thomas
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You can do it with Autohotkey. Download, install, and add this in the default script:

vkFFsc023::Send ^c

If this doesn't do, we probably have different keycodes (Because it works on my machine ;)). In this case, choose Open from AHK's icon in the system tray, then press CtrlK to view the key history, press fnc, then F5 to refresh, and change the vk and sc values in the script with the numbers in the first two columns of the row corresponding to your keypress.

You can do that for any combination of Ctrlsomething that you'd like to be remapped.

m4573r
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You can do it in BIOS. Restart -> F1 and look for something like Keyboard, Config, Fn and Ctrl Key swap or Function Key Behavior.

tohtori
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Download AutoHotkey and you can use this script

!v::Send ^v

Here when you will press the Alt+V it will behave for paste.

If you want to remap Ctrl+C with Alt+C then just add this line to the script 

!c::Send ^c

this will copy the text. However you can't remap the Fn key with AHK.

avirk
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