 | Senior Member with 412 posts. | | | | Cap locks. If you look at www.pcpitstop.com in the forums you will find a very useful tip which gives you a beep and a flash whenever you hit the Caps Lock key. If you're like me you will suddenly find half your sentence in capitals as you didn't realise that you had hit it! A very useful tip and very easy to set up. Even I could do it.! | | Distinguished Member with 2,229 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Redondo Beach, CA Experience: Advanced | | or, instead of telling others to look at a website, you could have just told people to check their Control panel, Accessibility Options, ToggleKeys.
(Or even just hold down their NumLock key for 5 seconds.) | | Senior Member with 412 posts. | | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by ChuckE or, instead of telling others to look at a website, you could have just told people to check their Control panel, Accessibility Options, ToggleKeys.
(Or even just hold down their NumLock key for 5 seconds.) | | | Senior Member with 412 posts. | | | | You are a bit grouchy today!.I thought that the pcpitstop instructions were very clear and wanted to credit the source. By the way what does holding the numlocks key down for 5 seconds do? | | Distinguished Member with 2,159 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: S.C Experience: Malware Fighter | | Press and hold the (Num Lk key) for 7 seconds and see what happens. Might come in handy on the Caps Lock key. | | Moderator with 96,685 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Kenny94 Press and hold the (Num Lk key) for 7 seconds and see what happens. Might come in handy on the Caps Lock key. | Doesn't do anything on my system. | | Distinguished Member with 2,159 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: S.C Experience: Malware Fighter | | My works John, that will turn 'Toggle Keys" on and off. It's a keyboard shortcut that should work? | | Distinguished Member with 2,229 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Redondo Beach, CA Experience: Advanced | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Nita You are a bit grouchy today!.I thought that the pcpitstop instructions were very clear and wanted to credit the source. By the way what does holding the numlocks key down for 5 seconds do? | It is not that I'm grouchy, it is just why tell people to go somewhere else to learn something, when you could more efficiently just tell them right now? It is more expedient. If you need to give credit for something you have learned elsewhere, you can still give credit, but why direct them elsewhere to learn it? They are already right here, in this "Tech Tips & Tricks" forum.
And according to the Windows info box opening, when you successfully hold down the NumLock key for 5 seconds, it is supposed to be 5 seconds. (I have attached a screen capture here of that box.) Plus, I just verified my PC, and it is 5 seconds, not 7. (But you can hold longer if you want to.  )
Also there are other easy-access to other Accessibility Options, like: Press the Shift key rapidly 5 times in a row, to turn "Sticky Keys" on.
("Sticky Keys" are useful for people with manual dexterity problems having difficulty in holding down two or more keys at once, like with the Shift, Ctrl, Alt, or "Flag" keys.)
or Press and hold the right Shift key for 8 to 16 seconds to turn on "FilterKeys"
("FilterKeys" are useful for Windows to ignore brief or repeated keystrokes - I guess that is for people who stutter when they type.)
__________________ Does this look infected to you? ... | | Distinguished Member with 2,159 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: S.C Experience: Malware Fighter | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by ChuckE And according to the Windows info box opening, when you successfully hold down the NumLock key for 5 seconds, it is supposed to be 5 seconds. (I have attached a screen capture here of that box.) Plus, I just verified my PC, and it is 5 seconds, not 7. (But you can hold longer if you want to.  ) | I count fast ChuckE...  .... | | Member with 98 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Experience: Intermediate |
15-Apr-2007, 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Nita If you look at www.pcpitstop.com in the forums you will find a very useful tip which gives you a beep and a flash whenever you hit the Caps Lock key. If you're like me you will suddenly find half your sentence in capitals as you didn't realise that you had hit it! A very useful tip and very easy to set up. Even I could do it.! |
Thanks for the tip Nita | | Moderator with 96,685 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience |
15-Apr-2007, 09:29 PM
#11 | Note that the shortcuts don't work if they're disabled in the control panel.  I got curious and went and looked. Since I have no use for that behavior, they're totally disabled. | | Distinguished Member with 2,143 posts. | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Florida USA |
15-Apr-2007, 09:45 PM
#12 | Thanks Chuck---your way worked for me; and was quick. That CAPS LOCK is constantly and accidentally hit by me. Guess the other solutions would work also, if PC is setup for that feature to work. | | Junior Member with 12 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: BC Canada Experience: Intermediate |
05-Feb-2008, 03:41 PM
#13 | Cap locks idled On my office computer I just pry off the cap locks key and cover the little plastic hole with duct tape. Have done this for three computers over 8 years and it works well. Have just bought a new lap top and am unsure if I should do that.
What do you persons think?
Bruce | | Distinguished Member with 2,229 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Redondo Beach, CA Experience: Advanced |
07-Feb-2008, 08:17 PM
#14 | | | | Junior Member with 12 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: BC Canada Experience: Intermediate |
08-Feb-2008, 12:43 AM
#15 | Caplocks Have Mercy on the afflicted - I shake a lot
Bruce |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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