sound for caps lock

[Guest]

is there any way to have a sound occur when I press caps lock? I often hit it
by mistake and then have to re-type a lot of text.

Thanks!

 

[Nick]

is there any way to have a sound occur when I press caps lock? I often hit
it
by mistake and then have to re-type a lot of text.

I have no answer - but don't you look at the screen ever when you are typing
so that you notice what you are typing.

I touch type but if my fingers are in the wrong place I will also be typing
garbage.

Nick

 

[paulmd]

is there any way to have a sound occur when I press caps lock? I often hit it
by mistake and then have to re-type a lot of text.

Thanks!

I suppose an uber-nerd could rig up a buzzer to the caps lock LED on
the keyboard.

 

[LVTravel]

Go to Control Panel, Accessibility Options and then go to Keyboard, click on
Use Toggle Keys. Click OK.

 

[M8RIX]

I have applied the following to my machine and it works great for me:
I can't remember the original poster of this fix so I can't give credit
where credit is due.
--
Mark N.


Fix the Caps Lock Key
This is a very personal thing, but I tend to hit the Caps Lock key without
realizing it, and then find myself writing about the dUKE OF yORK. I was
pleased to see that in WinXP keyboard remappings are simply a matter of
software (though per machine, not per user). Since I tend to hit Caps Lock
when I meant to hit Shift, I like to remap the Caps Lock key to act like
another Shift key.
To do this, you must be logged on as an administrator. Extract the following
lines to any file with a .REG extension, and then double-click that file.
The change will be effective next time you log on; you don't have to reboot.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode
Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,2a,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00
To remove all keyboard mappings, extract and apply the following patch in a
similar way:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=-

 

[Nick]

Despite my earlier cynical comment, thanks for that information.

I would like a similar sound for the Insert button which is adjacent to the
Backspace key.

If you really wish to get your text back in to another format, you could
copy and paste into Word and use the Change Case facility.

Nick

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Go to Control Panel, Accessibility Options and then go to Keyboard,
click on Use Toggle Keys. Click OK.

But note that on some systems, the sound this makes is so quiet as to be
almost inaudible. There are third-party programs that do a better job of
this. Google can find them.

Personally, I never want to use Caps Lock key at all, and I turn it off
permanently with Sharpkeys at http://www.randyrants.com/. I do the same
with the Insert key, another keyI never use, and sometimes hit accidentally.

 

[Nick]

But note that on some systems, the sound this makes is so quiet as to be
almost inaudible. There are third-party programs that do a better job of
this. Google can find them.

Personally, I never want to use Caps Lock key at all, and I turn it off
permanently with Sharpkeys at http://www.randyrants.com/. I do the same
with the Insert key, another keyI never use, and sometimes hit
accidentally.

Thanks for the Insert key switch-off aid - I don't know whether I will use
it - but this is a greater problem to me than accidently hitting the Caps -
even more irritating than mistakenly typing in Caps is overwriting what was
previously on the screen - although Edit/Undo should normally deal with
that.

(I had a job application form yesterday where the first page unbeknown to me
was supposed to be in Caps. This was in Word but I wasn't able to use Change
Case as it was a Form and the format was set.)

Nick

 

[Nick]

But note that on some systems, the sound this makes is so quiet as to be
almost inaudible. There are third-party programs that do a better job of
this. Google can find them.

Personally, I never want to use Caps Lock key at all, and I turn it off
permanently with Sharpkeys at http://www.randyrants.com/. I do the same
with the Insert key, another keyI never use, and sometimes hit
accidentally.

I tried installing it but it won't as it says the 2.0 version of NET
framework must be installed. I gather that I have 1.1.

Should 2.0 have been supplied with Windows XP updates?

Nick

 

[Nick]

I tried installing it but it won't as it says the 2.0 version of NET
framework must be installed. I gather that I have 1.1.

Should 2.0 have been supplied with Windows XP updates?

I have just installed NET framework 2.0 and then been able to install
Sharpkeys.

I have now disabled the Insert key - brilliant!

Nick

 

[Doug]

So what do you do in the future when you NEED the insert key?

Doug W.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have just installed NET framework 2.0 and then been able to install
Sharpkeys.

I have now disabled the Insert key - brilliant!

Great! Glad it helped and you like it.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

So what do you do in the future when you NEED the insert key?

One never *needs* the inset key. I want to be in insert mode all the time,
and never typeover mode. Anything typeover mode can do can be done in other
ways: a combination of delete and type, highlight a word and type over it,
etc. *My* prefernce is to use one of those methods, but YMMV.

But using a tool like SharpKeys, if I were to ever want the insert key back,
it would be quick and easy to turn it on again.

 

[Nick]

I think that probably the only time I might want to type over is where I
have a standard template eg a form which I wanted to type over the words eg
NAME and I would type over the persons name - but any instance where I want
to do that eg in Word I would use Tables or Excel.

Having said that I do receive job application forms where people are using
Word like a glorified typewriter and there are tabs and blanks all over the
place and I do have to virtually reformat the thing for them.

So, yes there are times when it is needed - but I hope never when I have
created a form.

After all with Excel one can fill down etc. Anything to minimise the
typing - and I can touch type.

Nick