Firstly, I want to wish everyone a happy halloween. Don’t eat too much candy!!
Ok, so following on from some registry tweaks, lets look at how you can disable the caps lock key. This key seems to frustrate users the most and we have had a few emails asking how to disable it.
Well in order to do so, you will need to do a little bit of registry editing. The registry has keboard layout settings and you can pretty much set any key the way you want. But for now, we will just look at altering CAPS LOCK.
This wont completely disable the caps lock key, it will just make it the same as the shift key. So you can still get uppercase etc by holding it down.
You will need to fire up the registry editor:
- Click “Start -> Run”. Then type in “regedit” and click “OK”
- Browse to the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout\
- You will need to create a new key called “Scancode Map”
- Right-click on the “Keyboard Layout” folder and select New->Binary value
- Call the new key “Scancode Map”, then give it the following value:
- 0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0008 02 00 00 00 2A 00 3A 00
0010 00 00 00 00
You will need to restart for the changes to take effect and your caps lock problems should be gone.
