Remapping Ctrl-R in IE to Refresh

Remapping Ctrl-R in IE to Refresh I'm a web developer who works on Macs. I do most of my testing on Firefox and Safari and then test my sites on IE to ensure compatibility. I have Parallels and Windows XP running and I find that I repeatedly hit Ctrl-R to refresh the page, only to have it open the "Run" window each time.
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"That's normal...on Mac, Command==WIN, Control==CTRL, Alt/Option==ALT. So Cmd-R translates to Win-R, which is the windows hotkey for run. Control+R translates to CTRL+R, which is what you want.

So basically what you want to do, is swap the WIN and CTRL keys inside your virtual machine. If Parallels has this option, that's the easiest way, otherwise you can do it pretty simply with AutoHotKey. An example script to swap CTRL and WIN:

LWin::Control
RWin::Control
Control::LWin

Here's another way that might work, by editing the registry."