Changing a keyboard key.

[Guest]

Ok... I admit I am a fumble-fingered, don't look at the screen, typist, and
my spelling leaves a lot to be improved. That siad I have this problem.
Many... many... Many times when I am typing and I hit the SHIFT key I
accidently hit the CAPS LOCK key instead. I usually go about th2 or 3 lines
with the case reversed. sORT OF LIKE THIS.

Is there a way to may the CAPS LOCK key only work when it is in conjunction
with another key? Something like Ctrl + CAPS LOCK ????

If there is... please write me at (e-mail address removed) and tell me how. I
will deeply appreciate it.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Not that I know of, but you can disable it, or change its characteristics.

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

 

[Stan Brown]

Sat, 7 Jan 2006 07:44:02 -0800 from Cylon12 <Cylon12
@discussions.microsoft.com>:

Ok... I admit I am a fumble-fingered, don't look at the screen, typist, and
my spelling leaves a lot to be improved. That siad I have this problem.
Many... many... Many times when I am typing and I hit the SHIFT key I
accidently hit the CAPS LOCK key instead. I usually go about th2 or 3 lines
with the case reversed. sORT OF LIKE THIS.

Is there a way to may the CAPS LOCK key only work when it is in conjunction
with another key? Something like Ctrl + CAPS LOCK ????

No, but you can change CapsLock into an extra Shift key, which is
what I did because I have the same problem you do.

http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/winxptip.htm#MiscCapslock

If there is... please write me at (e-mail address removed) and tell me how. I
will deeply appreciate it.

Bad move. Post a question in the group, read your answers in the
group.

http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#emailme

 

[Mungo Bulge]

Control Panel > Accessibility Options > ToggleKeys > check "Use
ToggleKeys" click OK and now when ever you hit CAP LOCK you will get
a beep for ON and a bop for OFF.
This may help.

| Ok... I admit I am a fumble-fingered, don't look at the screen,
typist, and
| my spelling leaves a lot to be improved. That siad I have this
problem.
| Many... many... Many times when I am typing and I hit the SHIFT key
I
| accidently hit the CAPS LOCK key instead. I usually go about th2 or
3 lines
| with the case reversed. sORT OF LIKE THIS.
|
| Is there a way to may the CAPS LOCK key only work when it is in
conjunction
| with another key? Something like Ctrl + CAPS LOCK ????
|
| If there is... please write me at (e-mail address removed) and tell me
how. I
| will deeply appreciate it.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Control Panel > Accessibility Options > ToggleKeys > check "Use
ToggleKeys" click OK and now when ever you hit CAP LOCK you will get
a beep for ON and a bop for OFF.
This may help.

It depends on your computer, but on mine I find that that beep is almost
inaudible.

Cylon12, another alternative you may want to consider is to disable the key
entirely. Like you, I often accidentally hit the caps lock key. Since I
never want to use it, I find it's best to disable it. There are several ways
to do this. The one that I use is the freeware SharpKeys at
http://www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys/

I use the same program to disable the Insert key, another key I never want
to use, but sometimes hit accidentally.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the attemps... I guess what I want to do is flat impossible.

 

[Norm Dresner]

The solution I've adopted is to run sMaRTcaPs from
http://www.phoebusllc.com

Norm