PowerToys seems to be making two step forward, one step backwards, and then makes a leap in a random off-axis direction. Every time an update comes, I feel both joy and worry - I expect to see some new cool thing (and possibly even useful to me), but I also worry about bloat and random performance degradations. I haven't bothered with measuring and quantifying it properly, but I do feel PowerToys got heavier and slower over the last 2 years.
Ironically, 90% of use I get from them is remapping Caps Lock to CTRL. Which I historically did with AutoHotkey, which was much lighter, but then there's the 10% of the time I need something else from PowerToys...
The even simpler solution to remapping Caps Lock is to use SharpKeys, which applies registry settings to make use of Windows’ built-in remapping functionality.
TIL: SharpKeys
TIL: Windows has a built-in remapping functionality
TIL: That functionality is controlled by registry, meaning I wouldn't even need a tool in the first place (I've learned to write REG files as a kid).
Thanks!
Even lighter than autohotkey is remapping on the hardware of the keyboard. There's a lot of open source firmware options for that now in the custom scene
Yeah I found all the software based remapping to be a bit janky on Windows, ended up just doing it in the keyboard firmware instead to move my ctrl keys beside the spacebar.