Caps Lock is mapped to Shift

Question

Sometime today, something occurred with my machine where the caps lock key is now mapped to Shift. It's annoying as I need to use Caps Lock for, among other things, a spreadsheet that I'm working on (not to mention CRUISE CONTROL, etc).

The only remotely plausible cause for this is the following registry entry, located at the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout

The key is as follows:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,2a,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00

I don't have anything like AutoHotKey or such installed, and I didn't get a new keyboard, or change my keymapping. I lock my PC while it's unattended, and I run the domain here, so it's not someone else messing with my stuff.

Answer 1

In my XP there is no "Scancode Map", just deleting that value should reset keyboard layout to default.

Some people here at my office prefer to swap r-ctrl with caps lock. Got the following .reg scripts to change this:

caps-ctrl-swap.reg:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,3a,00,1d,00,00,00,00,00

Is for swaping

caps-as-ctrl.reg:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00

Is for mapping capslock to ctrl only

(reboot might be needed after changing those, but unsure)