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How to Remap and Launch any Program with Scroll Lock key on Windows 10

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Scroll Lock key  is so infrequently used, it might not be on your keyboard at all especially if it’s a compact or laptop keyboard. However, you can easily remap the Scroll Lock to serve a more useful purpose, or configure it as a shortcut to launch a program. In this post, we will show you how to   remap and launch any program with the Scroll Lock key  on Windows 10. The Scroll Lock key was on the very first IBM PC released in 1981. It was intended to toggle a feature for which you could use the arrow keys to move text inside a window instead of the cursor. As of present, the arrow keys function in most programs automatically based on context. As a result, the Scroll Lock feature is rarely used as it was originally intended. However, Microsoft Excel still uses Scroll Lock for its original purpose. If Scroll Lock is disabled, you use the arrow keys to move the cursor between cells. When Scroll Lock is enabled, though, you can  use the arrow keys to scroll t...