How to move the right Shift key

If you're used to typing on a full-size keyboard, you'll find that the right Shift key is next to the / key. But on the Eee PC, the right Shift key is located one key further to the right. Because the Up key is located on the Eee PC where you'd expect to find the Shift key, you may find as you are typing that any time you go to capitalize a letter that you type with your left hand (e.g. an A), instead of capitalising the A, you instead move your cursor up a line and end up inserting an 'a' in the middle of some other word. Frustrating! You may decide you'd like your layout to be more like your full-size laptop. Here's how to do it.

Software change

• download MapKeyboard
• make sure you have .NET Framework 2.0 installed
• run the software and remap the key.

Move your keycaps to reflect the new layout

To physically switch the keys, lift up very gently on the left side of the key with a paring knife or something similar until the scissors mechanism that holds them in place pops off, and gently press down in the new location until they snap into place. Warning: If you lift off the keycaps with too much force, or lift up on the wrong side, you could break the mechanism that holds them in place.