Windows 7 – How can I swap Ctrl and Fn keys on a corporate computer?

Our computers have been upgraded to HP EliteBook 8570p machines and while they’re very nice machines, they are also very large — so large that the left Ctrl key is too far away, making Ctrl+V really difficult to do with one hand.

I’m sure there are ways to re-map the keys so that their signal is swapped. But add the factor of corporate security, is there still a reasonably simple approach to this?

I’m sure you’d like more information before you can answer — I’ll try to add updates based on comments and answers.

Solution:

It can’t be done. Not without getting your hands dirty, that is opening up keyboards and swapping keys at the hardware level. Pressing the Fn-key changes the scancodes for other keys on the board, but is not reported to the operating system. For example, on a lot of notebook keyboards, pressing Fn-K will be registered as pressing an actual Numpad 2, even though that key might not physically exist. The operating system is fully unaware of any Fn-key and its presses can therefore not be remapped on a software level.