I am the less than happy owner of a Canadian ASUS laptop with a Canadian French keyboard, running Windows 8.1.  The left shift key is really narrow and easy to miss.  Immediately to its right is a key with "\" on it.  (Quite how having a "\" key there, while there is also a perfectly functional "\" key in the usual spot, is useful to Quebecers escapes me and I am Francophone too).  But the end result is that I touch-type a lot of '\j' instead of "J" for example.  How can I tell Windows to consider that both the left-shift and that annoying "\" key, but only at that location on the keyboard, should be considered shift?  I don't care about the labels and I also don't wish to modify anything else on that keyboard.  I downloaded the MS Keyboard Layout Creator v 1.4, and it shows me the guilty key as VK_OEM_102.  Tried typing in 'shift' as a replacement and it complained that it wanted 4 characters or 4 UTF-16 code points.  Then I tried FEFF000F, which I got from  as Shift-in.
How can I remap keyboard keys in windows 8.1? I'm looking for a simple utility which will modify registry and would not require running at startup. I tried sharpkeys but, it does not seem to work in windows 8.1. Any other suggestions? Or a simple how-to tutorial for windows 8.1?  Edit: Keytweak isn't working either. Actually I want to map an unused key to function key (fn) and neither sharpkeys nor keytweak detect the keystroke for that key.   Thanks
Several companies are commercializing tests for telomere length such as this one . I understand the basic mechanism for why telomeres shorten during DNA replication, but how good is the evidence that telomere length is a reliable indicator of healthspan/lifespan? Why won't Nikon B700 focus close when fully zoomed? Hello recently I went to best buy and played with a Nikon B500, it was great. I was able to focus on the smallest things, close or far, zoomed all the way in and all the way out. So I went on the internet and found out that the B700 shoots in raw so I got it instead thinking it was better. Only I cant get it to focus on anything close up, weather in macro or not after like 25% zoom it no longer focuses on anything no matter what settings I put it on leaving me to think that I should have gotten the cheaper B500. It may not shoot in raw but at least it would be usable. I am fairly new to photography I had a friend with much more experience come over and try to figure it out. He told me that my camera has a range that it is able to focus on. Only the cheaper B500 focused on things way more zoomed in and with the camera much closer to the object so it doesn't make much since to me. So my question is why wont my camera focus on macro shots (weather in macro or not)? How can a single slit diffraction produce an interference pattern? How can a light passed though a single slit produce a similar interference pattern to the double-slit experiment? How does the diffracted wave produce the points of cancellation and reinforcement, if there is only one wave? Sort thebibliography by citation order Show function is continuous at origin $$ \begin{cases}xy^2\sin\left(\frac 1 y\right), \text {if $y$ $\neq$ 0} \\ 0, \text{if $y$ = 0} \end{cases}$$  I'm not sure how to work out this limit as $x$ goes to infinity. If it were just the y part, I know that $y^2$ goes to 0 and $\sin$ is a limited function, so it has to go to 0, but I don't know what to do with the $x$ term. Easiest way to read from and write to files Time complexity function in terms of theta notation sum = 0;  for (i = 0; i &lt; n; i++)    for (j = 1; j &lt; n^3; j = 3*j)                  sum++;   what is the time complexity (in $\Theta$-notation) in terms of $n$?  so far, this is what i've done: The running time is $\Theta(N^4)$  Because the for loop’s condition is depend on $n$ and is incremented by $1$, and  then inside running time is $\mathcal{O}(1)$. i feel i'm wrong here. any help would be appreciated. Is there a list of Ubuntu versions with default corresponding Linux kernel versions somewhere?  I would specifically like to know the most recent version of Ubuntu that still used Linux Kernel 2.x. How do split panes in Terminal work? Relation between AB and BA Let $A$ and B be $n\times n$ matrices over a field $F$. 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Note: Question originally appeared Can Resharper be set to warn if IDisposable not handled correctly? Is there a setting in Resharper 4 (or even Visual Studio itself...) that forces a warning if I forget to wrap code in a using block, or ommit the proper Dispose call in a finally block? Execute a Java program from our Java program I used   Runtime.getRuntime().exec("_____")   but it throws a IOException as below:  java.io.IOException: CreateProcess: c:/ error=5   at java.lang.Win32Process.create(Native Method)   at java.lang.Win32Process.&lt;init&gt;(Win32Process.java:63)   at java.lang.Runtime.execInternal(Native Method   I don't know whether I have the problem with specifying the path or something else. Can anyone please help me with the code. Idempotents in a ring without unity (rng) and no zero divisors. Question: Given a ring without unity and with no zero-divisors, is it possible that there are idempotents other than zero?   Def: $a$ is idempotent if $a^2 = a$.   Originally the problem was to show that $1$ and $0$ are the only idempotents in a ring with unity and no zero-divisors, but I wonder what happens if we remove the unity condition.   I am trying to find a ring with idempotents not equal to $0$ or $1$. So far my biggest struggle has been coming up with examples of rings with the given properties.   Does anyone have any hints? How should I attack this problem? File sync error (AUTH_FAILED) Recently I started getting a File sync error on all 3 of my PCs running Ubuntu One.  One is running Ubuntu, the other 2 are running Windows 8.  Looking at the list of clients on the web, none of them were there anymore.    I found this article:      On how to fix the issue for my Ubuntu PC and it worked perfectly.  Now I am looking for a similar fix for Windows but haven't found one yet.  I've tried un-installing Ubuntu One and re-installing it, but it must still be holding the keys somewhere because it never asked me to login again.    Does anyone know where I can clear these keys to get my files syncing on Windows again? How can I get list of symbols, abbreviations, abstract, acknowledgements into Table of Contents before Introduction, and under roman numerals? Proving that $m+n\sqrt{2}$ is dense in $\mathbb R$