Comments on: Disabling caps lock?

Question: Disabling caps lock?

BigPicnic — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:22:08 -0800

How to require Caps Lock to be held down for a few seconds before activating?

I hate caps lock. It single-handedly reduces my productivity about 30%. I hit it, I'd say, about 1 out of every 10 times I have to type an "a". Then I have to spend time retyping whatever it is I typed in caps. Ideally, I'd like a feature where you have to hold it down for a few seconds before it activates or, barring that, disable it completely. I'm using WinXP on a (sager) laptop, incidentally. ThANKS.

By: riffola

riffola — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:28:37 -0800

Disable Caps Lock

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:41:35 -0800

Another solution might be to get a keyboard where the Caps Lock key is only partially protruding. I'm typing on one right now - the key is full width, but only the left part comes up to "key level", creating a cleft between the Caps Lock and "A" (or rather, "a" ;) ) keys. Viewed from the side, it looks like this:

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(I pray to the Gods of ASCII that this works)

I'm a clumsy typer myself, but this reaLLY HELPS FOR ME. Oops. :)

By: winston

winston — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:46:25 -0800

As far as disabling it completely goes, grab a flathead screwdriver and pry out the key. It should be possible to do this without damaging anything (I disclaim any responsibility though :-) and you can just pop it back in. You could even still use Caps Lock by sticking your finger in the little hole and pressing on the little stub that's left.

By: winston

winston — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:47:36 -0800

doh. I missed riffola's post

By: BigPicnic

BigPicnic — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:05:54 -0800

Awesome, thanks everyone.

By: arielmeadow

arielmeadow — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:30:25 -0800

If you don't want to disable Caps Lock completely, there's also Caps Beep (PC and Mac).

By: Fupped Duck

Fupped Duck — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:41:30 -0800

I popped off my caps lock key, and carefully placed a drop of crazy glue on the caps lock key stem, waited 5 minutes and replaced the key cap.
Problem solved for the most uselessly annoying key on a modern keyboard.

By: BleachBypass

BleachBypass — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:07:08 -0800

Also, consider mapping the Ctrl function to caps lock. That way you get some use out of it.

The orginal ctrl setup gives me wrist pain when I have to ctrl-v paste a lot. On the PC this is accomplished via the registry.

I was about to link to the same page as riffola.