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* Laptop: change touchpad sensitivity to medium or high in order to prevent mouse movement when palm touches the pad while typing.
* If using a Lenovo then disable touchpad lock in the Lenovo Vantage app.
* Map caps key to left-ctrl using Sharpkeys.
* This covers keyboards directly connected to the PC, but not wireless
keyboards connected to the Steam Link. To remap caps for that, install
Bill Microsoft's [PowerTools](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/)
and then go to the key remapper and map caps to ctrl. It took me years to
find a solution to this. Fucking Steam Link. Note that you can probably
not bother with Sharpkeys and just use PowerToys for all remapping needs.
I'll have to give it a test some day.
* Map caps key to left-ctrl
* If the keyboard supports remapping at the hardware level (e.g. like the Keychron keyboards) then map it there and this should cover all
use cases, including Steam Link which for some reason does not respect the various remapping setups (except for PowerTools - see below).
* For software based remapping, there are two options:
* Use SharpKeys for a simple config change in Windows. You don't have to run any software at startup to get the remapping. The downside is that
this doesn't work over Steam Link.
* Use Bill Microsoft's [PowerTools](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/). Install it and then go to the key remapper tool in the settings.
This works over Steam Link but it requires you to run the program to get the remapping. If you go down this path then be sure to go through the settings
and disable the various tools that you don't want.
* Download [O&O ShutUp10](https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10) and disable things.