Amazingly the other day I stumbled across a webpage talking about the problems of typing a backslash character from a UK Macintosh keyboard when connected to a Windows PC via Remote Desktop Connection. This is particularly infuriating when you need to type in file paths.

The solution to this was to download and install a freeware system tray application for the Windows machine which converted the key to the left of the Z key on a Mac keyboard (which is where the backslash is on a UK PC keyboard) into a backslash.

Why is this amazing? Well the program that was available for download was written by me way back in 2005 and I’d completely forgotten about it. It seems that it is still widely in use and people are still finding it useful.

This solution works just as well if you’re running a virtual machine as well such as VirtualBox or Virtual PC – although it’s not needed if you’re running VMWare Fusion.

So I thought it was only right and proper to make it available from my own website. So here you go, you can download it below and use it to your heart’s content.

All the sparse instructions you need are in the massive 8KB ZIP file together with the executable. Enjoy.

Download Backslasher 1.0