Keyboard key mapping – solving the ASUS question mark (?) problem

Posted on October 19, 2009 by awfurtado

Just sharing something useful: I have an ASUS laptop with a brazilian keyboard but the question mark/slash key (? and /) never worked with the brazilian ABNT layout. After browsing the web I found out that such a key was being mapped to the Control Key. The way to solve this was to map it to the question mark key, by setting the following registry key:

  • Path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout
  • Value (name): Scancode Map
  • Type: REG_BINARY
  • Data: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 73 00 1D E0 00 00 00 00

This tells your computer to map the right control key to the “/?” key.

Log off, then log on. The problem will be solved.

BR,
— AFurtado

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2 Responses to Keyboard key mapping – solving the ASUS question mark (?) problem

  1. Imhappy Withthisfix says:
    June 21, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    Thanks so much, kind stranger!

    Reply
  2. José Rocha says:
    September 18, 2017 at 5:16 pm

    This hint ended a 5+ years struggle against this key on a Lenovo Thinkpad x201I laptop using same layout.
    Esta dica encerrou uma luta de mais de 5 anos contra a maldita tecla num laptop Lenovo Thinkpad x201I usando o mesmo layout.
    Gracias

    Reply

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