Caps Lock: Can it be disabled?

[scs0]

No key on the keyboard is more annoying and more useless than the CAPS
Lock key. I accidently hit that thing at least 10 times a day and
then I'm forced to undo text changes because of it. Is there a way to
disable this key other than pulling it out of they keyboard? I'm
about to yank it from the keyboard but I'd like to know if there's a
better way of doing it.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

No key on the keyboard is more annoying and more useless than the CAPS
Lock key. I accidently hit that thing at least 10 times a day and
then I'm forced to undo text changes because of it. Is there a way to
disable this key other than pulling it out of they keyboard? I'm
about to yank it from the keyboard but I'd like to know if there's a
better way of doing it.

There are several ways to solve your problem:
a) Have the errant finger amputated.
b) Spend the required time to learn how to touch-type error-free.
c) Run remapkey.exe and use it to drag the left Shift key on
top of the CapsLock key. You can then hit CapsLock as often
as you like - the keyboard will no longer go into CapsLock mode.
Since optons a) and b) might not be to your liking, you should
download remapkey.exe from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en
Best to make a note of what you did and how you did it so that
you can undo it a few years from now when you pass the PC
on to someone else.

 

[Gerry]

http://disablecapslock.com/

http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/disable_caps_lock/

Take care.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Lem]

http://disablecapslock.com/

http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/disable_caps_lock/

Take care.

I like Pegasus' option (a) much better [for the OP; I don't have this
problem]. He could even tell a story to explain it: "Man From the
South" http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/south.html

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

 

[Gerry]

Lem

Yes Pegasus does a sense of humour. I also would leave things as they
are that's why I said "Take care".


--
Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://disablecapslock.com/

http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/disable_caps_lock/

Take care.

I like Pegasus' option (a) much better [for the OP; I don't have this
problem]. He could even tell a story to explain it: "Man From the
South" http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/south.html

 

[Nonny]

There are several ways to solve your problem:
a) Have the errant finger amputated.
b) Spend the required time to learn how to touch-type error-free.

{snip}

Good stuff!

I went to the area where one can configure for folks with sight
problems and chose to have a BEEP sound whenever I hit the key. It
makes a much softer beep when I turn CAPS LOCK off.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

No key on the keyboard is more annoying and more useless than the CAPS
Lock key. I accidently hit that thing at least 10 times a day and
then I'm forced to undo text changes because of it. Is there a way to
disable this key other than pulling it out of they keyboard? I'm
about to yank it from the keyboard but I'd like to know if there's a
better way of doing it.

Like you I hate the capslock key and never use it on purpose. To me,
that and the insert key are both useless and both are prone to my
hitting them by accident.

There are several ways to disable (or reassign) these (and anything
else you want). I use the free SharpKeys at
http://www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys/

 

[John]

d) Take an unused wire. Connect one end to the electrical outlet. Tape the
other end to the surface of CAPS LOCK key.

After a few hours (may take longer for slow learners)... no more wandering
fingers. Guaranteed.

 

[Bill Sharpe]

Like you I hate the capslock key and never use it on purpose. To me,
that and the insert key are both useless and both are prone to my
hitting them by accident.

There are several ways to disable (or reassign) these (and anything
else you want). I use the free SharpKeys at
http://www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys/

Can we point the few posters who SHOUT in capital letters to this
thread, perhaps?

Bill

 

[Frank-FL]

No key on the keyboard is more annoying and more useless than the CAPS
Lock key. I accidently hit that thing at least 10 times a day and
then I'm forced to undo text changes because of it. Is there a way to
disable this key other than pulling it out of they keyboard? I'm
about to yank it from the keyboard but I'd like to know if there's a
better way of doing it.

I just get a big ho ho out the these types of post. Don't know how to
type, so they blame it on the Caps Lock Key. In other words everything
that one is incapable of doing is someone else's fault.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I just get a big ho ho out the these types of post. Don't know how to
type, so they blame it on the Caps Lock Key. In other words everything
that one is incapable of doing is someone else's fault.

Sorry, but that's nonsense. Yes, that's correct--I don't know how to
type. I freely admit it. I went to school at a time when girls learned
to type, cook, and sew, and boys took things like wood shop.

I don't blame my inability to type properly on the caps lock key, but
I *do* recognize that, given my inability to type properly, the caps
lock key is an enormous hindrance to me. So I turn it off, and I am
instantly a better typist.

There's nothing with my doing that and there's nothing wrong with
someone else in the same position asking for help in turning it off.
Nobody has suggested that it should be turned off for everyone, but
turning it off greatly helps those of us who are handicapped typists.

And nobody even remotely suggested that "everything that one is
incapable of doing is someone else's fault."

 

[Frank-FL]

Sorry, but that's nonsense. Yes, that's correct--I don't know how to
type. I freely admit it. I went to school at a time when girls learned
to type, cook, and sew, and boys took things like wood shop.

I don't blame my inability to type properly on the caps lock key, but
I *do* recognize that, given my inability to type properly, the caps
lock key is an enormous hindrance to me. So I turn it off, and I am
instantly a better typist.

There's nothing with my doing that and there's nothing wrong with
someone else in the same position asking for help in turning it off.
Nobody has suggested that it should be turned off for everyone, but
turning it off greatly helps those of us who are handicapped typists.

And nobody even remotely suggested that "everything that one is
incapable of doing is someone else's fault."

Well I am so sorry. I learned how to type in 1952 on a typewriter without
any lettering on the keyboard. This was for extra credit using one of my
study halls. This has been very useful to me for the last 54 years.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Well I am so sorry. I learned how to type in 1952 on a typewriter without
any lettering on the keyboard. This was for extra credit using one of my
study halls. This has been very useful to me for the last 54 years.

Glad to hear it, and good for you. I'm happy that you had that choice.
I wish that I had had the same choice, but I didn't (despite you and I
apparently being of similar age). Typing would have been a more
valuable skill than what I learned in wood shop, or what I didn't
learn in study hall.

But please don't give me or others like me a hard time because we
didn't have the same choices you did. And remember that turning off
the Caps Lock key makes *my* life, and that of others like me, easier.
Despite what you originally posted, that's good, not bad.

 

[HRBE]

Well the luxury of being taught typing wasn't available in the small country
western town I grew up in!

I find the caps lock defeat programme a wonderful invention, no more
mistakes in upper case for me.

The keyboard was only presented to me at the age of 55!

John

Sorry, but that's nonsense. Yes, that's correct--I don't know how to
type. I freely admit it. I went to school at a time when girls learned
to type, cook, and sew, and boys took things like wood shop.

I don't blame my inability to type properly on the caps lock key, but
I *do* recognize that, given my inability to type properly, the caps
lock key is an enormous hindrance to me. So I turn it off, and I am
instantly a better typist.

There's nothing with my doing that and there's nothing wrong with
someone else in the same position asking for help in turning it off.
Nobody has suggested that it should be turned off for everyone, but
turning it off greatly helps those of us who are handicapped typists.

And nobody even remotely suggested that "everything that one is
incapable of doing is someone else's fault."

Well I am so sorry. I learned how to type in 1952 on a typewriter without
any lettering on the keyboard. This was for extra credit using one of my
study halls. This has been very useful to me for the last 54 years.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I had too many 'spares' and the only thing open was a typing class,
where I too learned to type without the help of key lettering. Have
never regretted taking the class.

Sure. I wish that I could have done it then, too.

There are now some excellent
computer based programs to learn how to touch type, many of them free.

Yes, I know. The thing is that I type fairly quickly even though I
don't touch type. One of the main reasons people touch type is that
they are secretaries who need to read what their boss has hand-written
while they type. Since I'm not a secretary, that need doesn't exist
for me, and I get by fairly well without touch typing.

Such a program might improve my skills, but since I'm not a secretary,
it isn't really necessary, and what I do works for me. So I've never
bothered.