Mapping Caps Lock to Control from within Emacs on Windows

Question

When reading either of these questions or the EmacsWiki article about mapping Caps Lock to Control in emacs in Windows, the best answers seem to involve the registry. My que

Answer 1

You do not necessarily need Admin rights in order to modify the registry.
In fact, the Windows Registry is a segmented resource, much like a filesystem, and you can have granular permissions on various branches and nodes within the registry. Are you sure your assumption that you cannot change the registry, is correct? I think it is true by default on Vista, but not on previous Windows.