If you happen to be cursed into having to use windows but want a ’l33t h4x0r keyboard (Dvorak keyboard, with caps lock turned into control) like I use the following documents are excellent. Add the Dvorak keyboard layout via the control panel, hit the ‘make default’ button. OK, so now you’re Dvorak-ized. Awesome. Not awesome, windows uses QWERTY as default for the login. This sux0rz. Do the following (taken from This Tech-Ed document. By the way, you should probably back up your registry. I didn’t but I don’t want to be responsible if you do something stupid doing this ( I didn’t backup, but I’m foolish like that).

Dvorak users like myself can celebrate a bit: See an actual Dvorak typewriter!

I realized just now that I can type the word ’enthusiasm’ all in one row of keys on a Dvorak keyboard save for the last m. Compared to the QWERTY implementation, it’s a shocking efficiency improvement. Other words you can spell on the Dvorak home row: annotations, assassinate, Einsteinian, instantiations, tediousness, hideousness.

Yet again research shows that typing comme moi nets benefits.