Chris has written for The New York Times, been interviewed as a technology expert on TV stations like Miamis NBC 6, and had his work covered by news outlets like the BBC.

Whether youre primarily a Windows user or primarily an OS X user, the layout doesnt feel quite right when you run Windows in Boot Camp but you can fix that.

All it takes is a few clicks with SharpKeys and youll feel more at home in Boot Camp.

On a typical PC keyboard, the bottom-left corner of the keyboard contains keys in this order: Ctrl, Windows, Alt.

On a Mac keyboard, youll see the following layout: Control, Option, Command.

Worse yet, Mac users will have to use the Control key for various keyboard shortcuts that require the Command key on Mac OS X.

SharpKeys is an easy-to-use, open-source graphical program that creates the appropriate Windows registry entries to remap keys.

You could actually do this all in the registry editor if you like it just takes more work.

Youll then be able to use Mac keyboard shortcuts like CommandC, X, or V for Copy, Cut, and Paste in Windows.

Pressing CommandL will focus the location bar in your web browser on Windows just as it does on OS X without the remapping, that CommandL shortcut equals Windows KeyL, which will lock your Windows system.

Click the Add button and click Type Key under the From key column on the left.

Next, click the Type Key button under the To key column on the right.

Your left Command key will function as a second Control key, which means many Mac Command key shortcuts will just work like youd expect them to.

If you need to press the Windows key, press the Command key on the right side of your keyboard instead.

This will change the order from Control, Alt, Windows to Control, Windows, Alt the same order youll find on a standard Windows keyboard.

The muscle memory youve built up for keyboard shortcuts wont fail you.

Press the Command key at the right side of your keyboard and then click OK.

Scroll down in the To key column on the right and select Special: Right Alt.

The AltOption key will function as a Windows key and the Command key will function as the Alt key.

This means the layout at the left side of your keyboard will be Control, Windows, Alt just like on Windows.

For example, you could swap the Control and Command keys in Mac OS X then youd press ControlC, X, or V to Copy, Cut, and Paste in Mac OS X, just as you would on Windows.

Click the Keyboard icon, click the Modifier Keys button, and swap the Control and Command key functions.

Everything will be back to normal after you log out and log back in or reboot.

Hes written about technology for nearly a decade and was a PCWorld columnist for two years.

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