XP – making CAPSLOCK your CTRL

CobyR — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:17:32 +0000

Another note to self on Windows XP configurations:

use RegEdt32

Add HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Keyboard Layout/ScancodeMap – as binary value.

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
02 00 00 00 1D 00 3A 00
00 00 00 00

See Archived article here:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/w2kscan-map.mspx

Windows XP – using Wireless and Wired Networks together

CobyR — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:36:43 +0000

So I have a network configuration with a switch, a router, a NAS device and a few other things on a wired network that I do not want to connect to the internet. So I picked up a wireless adapter for my XP box and plugged it in.

Turn it on can’t access the internet … so did some Google searching and came up with:
netstat -rn
I had 2 default routes (0.0.0.0) to my wired and wireless adapter with the same metric probably 20 – this was the problem.

The easiest way to fix this is to go to your network connections
page, right click on wireless connections, select properties, TCP/IP
properties, select advanced then un-check automatic metric, enter a value lower
than the wired adapter (20) so I used 10.

Now the wireless adapter will be preferred for all routes except the network
attached to the wired adapter.

Problem Solved – and not to self added to blog.

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XP – making CAPSLOCK your CTRL

Windows XP – using Wireless and Wired Networks together