STFU && RTFM

I’ve previously showed you how to disable the Caps Lock key in Ubuntu. There are many ways of doing this in Windows as well, my favorite is to simply remap it to something else.
 
Microsoft have published a tool kit called Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools. In it is a nifty little utility called remapkey.exe. Download and install the tool kit. I installed it to the default location (C:\Program files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools). Once installed, simply open the folder to see the plethora of utilities it comes with:
 

 
The utility shows you two keyboard setups, a base keyboard and a remapped keyboard. Simply drag keys from the base keyboard onto the key you want to remap on the remapped keyboard. In the screenshot below, you’ll see I’ve remapped caps lock to left shift:
 

 
When you hit save, the program warns you that you’ll lose the Capslock key:
 

 
The change requires a reboot, but once you’ve rebooted, you’re in the caps lock free environment you were wanting.
 
The tool works with Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista. In Vista you’ll need administrative privileges to do this.

Part of my job is setting up new computers. Part of the routine is to make sure all hardware devices have been installed. Now, this can be easier said than done, when all the information I have to go on is that the device in question is called “USB Device”…
 
Now, a while ago, a colleague of mine showed me a piece of software that so impressed me that I immediately put it on my on-site troubleshooting kit. The software in question is called System Information for Windows, or SIW for short.
 
SIW is a powerful bit of software that can be found here. The application to solve the aformentioned problem is as follows:
 
I plugged in my USB drive, and started SIW. I then found the entry “Devices” under Hardware. There I found the errant device, and found it to be identified as “vid_0c24&pid000F” A quick Google later, I knew the culprit to be the onboard Bluetooth card.
 
Instead of spending a lot of time trying different drivers, the above approach allowed me to find a solution, and implement it, within the space of ten minutes.