Diamond cursor in Windows

This is a memo of the geeky tasks to perform first after purchasing a Windows 11 PC. It covers swapping Ctrl and CapsLock and setting the diamond cursor.

Swapping Ctrl and Caps Lock

Open the Registry Editor with regedit, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE → SYSTEM → CurrentControlSet → Control → Keyboard Layout, and create a new entry named Scancode Map by selecting Edit → New → Binary Value. Enter the following data:

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 1d 00 3a 00 3a 00 1d 00 00 00 00 00

The initial zeros on the left can be ignored. When entered, spaces are automatically inserted every two characters, and letters are converted to uppercase.

Diamond cursor

Use Power Toys' Keyboard Manager to enable the diamond cursor. Right-click the Power Toys icon in the taskbar and click Settings. Turn on Keyboard Manager. Launch Keyboard Manager and click Remap shortcuts.
As shown in the figure below, click Shortcut on the left and enter the shortcut you want to register.For example, enter Ctrl d, click the Shortcut on the right side of the mapped destination, and enter →. This will display “Right” and become a shortcut to move to the right.

Set it up as follows.