title: How to hijack the Caps Lock key for Cut, Copy, Paste keyboard operations
body: <p>Here is what I am trying to accomplish:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>To Copy, press and release <kbd>Caps Lock</kbd> ONCE</li>
  <li>To Paste, press and release <kbd>Caps Lock</kbd> TWICE, quickly</li>
  <li>To Cut, press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Caps Lock</kbd></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>The reason I want to do this is often times i find my self looking down to press the correct X/C/V key, since they're all next to each other (atleast on a QWERTY keyboard).</p>
  
  <p>How can I do this on a standard keyboard (using Windows), so that it applies to the entire system and is transparent to all applications, including to Windows Explorer? If not possible with a standard keyboard, can any of the "programmable numeric keypads" do this you think?</p>
  
  <p>In the above, by "transparent" I mean "the application should never know that this keystroke was translated. It only gets the regular <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>X</kbd>/<kbd>C</kbd>/<kbd>V</kbd> code, so it behaves without any problems".</p>
  
  <p>Ps. Not sure of all the tags that are appropriate for this question, so feel free to add more tags.</p>
  
  <p>SOLVED. UPDATE:
  Thank you to @Jonno_FTW for introducing me to AutoHotKey.
  I managed all three requirements by adding the following AHK script in the default AutoHotKey.ahk file in My Documents folder:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Ctrl &amp; CapsLock::
    Send ^x
  Return      
  CapsLock::
  If (A_PriorHotKey = A_ThisHotKey and A_TimeSincePriorHotkey &lt; 1000)
    Send ^v
  Else
    Send ^c
  Return
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That was easy!</p>
  
  <p><strong>NOT COMPLETELY SOLVED. UPDATE:</strong>
  The above works in Notepad, but NOT in Explorer (copying files for example) or MS Office (even text copying does not work). So, I need to dig around a bit more into AutoHotKey or other solutions. Will post a solution here when I find one. 
  In the meantime, if someone can make AutoHotKey work for everything I need, please reply!</p>
  
  <p><strong>ALL SOLVED. UPDATE:</strong>
  All I had to do was to change the capital "C"/X/Z to lowercase "c"/x/z. So Send ^C became Send ^c. It now works in ALL programs inlcuding Windows Explorer! Fixed code above to reflect this change.</p>