Alan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote on Thu, 21 Aug 2008:
> I am using XP Service Pack 2, and I get sounds for almost everything except
>Caps Lock. I have set toggle in Accessibility Options, But still no sound. Can
>someone help please?
Mike Cawood wrote:
>>Windows doesn't provide a sound for the caps lock key. A sound might
>>be provided by your keyboard driver program, particularly if it's a
>>cordless keyboard.
It's true Windows doesn't have a "system event" sound for Caps Lock, but
ToggleKeys in Accessibility Options *does* offer the facility to play
tones when this key, Num Lock or Scroll Lock are pressed.
Alan, the sound you should be hearing comes from the PC speaker (inside
the case), not from the sound system. First I'd check you don't have
this switched off: right-click the volume control icon in your taskbar
and open your volume control settings. If you see a slider for PC Beep
or PC Sound, make sure it's turned up to a reasonable level and that the
Mute box isn't checked.
If that doesn't help, it's possible that your PC speaker isn't
connected, or that you don't have one (some modern systems don't). If
that's the case, you could use a free third-party utility like this one:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/firstcap.html
which allows you to assign any .wav sound to the keypress instead. This
is just an example (but one I've tried :-); Google has many more.
Hope this helps. Let us know how you get on.
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Nightowl
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