woodelf wrote: It is a pretty awful bit of design; you'd think manufacturers would have learnt something in so many years. I used to rip the Windows keys off my desktop keyboards so that I didn't catch them occasionally - unfortunately that's a bit difficult on this laptop, but I've got the left Windows key remapped to the pound symbol anyway (it's a US-built laptop). (Stupid laptop has no right-hand CTRL key, but the right-hand Windows key's a bit too far from the cursor keys to make it worthwhile remapping that one) Yeah, I know this is probably OT. I find it interesting though that we have keyboards for a generic system where some of the keys are specific to a single OS; particularly as the majority don't seem to actually use them anyway (can you buy a PC keyboard without them these days?). There's probably some interesting history as to why it came about... cheers Jules