The cAPS lOCK key is DEAD! Long live the Caps Lock Key!

I don’t know about you – But I hate the Caps Lock key. I never use it and occasionally I mistake it for the shift key. I always wanted it to be something else or at least not be there. I have found (thanks to Hillel) that there are alternatives.

Thanks to Josh for the Caps Lock photo.

There is this tip which will disable Caps Lock or let you remap it to other keys. This site give you registry entries to change the Caps Lock key.
http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/disable_caps_lock/

There is this more friendly utilty that will let you remap the CapsLock and other keys. It is an open source full keyboard utility.
http://www.qliner.com/hotkeys/

This site gives you all the info you need to remap any key into any other key.
http://www.usnetizen.com/fix_capslock.html

Sysinternals has a utility that will turns the Caps Lock key into a Contol key.
http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/ctrl2cap.html

If you WANT the Caps Lock key but would like to know when it is on there is this utility which will give you an on screen alert when you press the Caps Lock key.
http://www.dkpcode.com/html/downloads.html#DKOSD On screen caps lock display.

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4 Responses to “The cAPS lOCK key is DEAD! Long live the Caps Lock Key!”

  1. melvynadam Says:
    June 13th, 2006 at 11:40 am

    Personally, I’m not offended by the existence of the Caps Lock key. I’m more offended by the very limited functionality. Fortunately, I found CAPshift to greatly enhance the possibilities for this pretty basic button:
    http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#CAPshift

  2. DannyS Says:
    June 20th, 2006 at 10:04 am

    I’ve had AntiCapsLock in my StartUp for years. It makes *that* key behave like the Shift key. It’s archived in places like http://www.thedance.net/~win95/ and still work in XP.

  3. Ari Says:
    June 20th, 2006 at 10:36 am

    The advantage of using a registry fix over a utility is that you can choose what you want your caps lock key to do and it does not take any additional memory the way a utility does.

    Don’t get me wrong – do what works for you If you like utility’s use them. I like the registry fix for this -is costs no memory and is very flexible.

  4. Rudy Knueppel Says:
    June 16th, 2010 at 4:42 am

    Hi thank you for this entry.

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