Have Windows Notify You When You Accidentally Hit the Caps Lock Key
Don't you hate it when you are typing an email, a report, or chatting on IM and halfway through… you (or the person you are shouting at) realizes you have caps lock on?
You can create a sound for the caps lock button when it is pressed so you will immediately know when it's turned on.
To turn on this option, first go to Control Panel and click on the Accessibility Options icon.
In the resulting screen check the box next to "Use Toggle Keys", click OK and you are done.
Now every time you hit the caps lock key you will get a friendly beep notifying you it has been pressed.
Mysticgeek is the resident IT expert at How-To Geek and a huge rock music fan. When he's not writing about Microsoft Office, he's probably writing at his personal blog. This article was written on 04/16/07 and tagged with: Windows
You peaked my interest in how this could be done with Windows Vista so I did some searching until I found it. Go to Control Panel >> Ease of Access Center >> Make the keyboard easier to use. There is one box for making the sounds come one. Thanks for getting me started!
Dwayne,
Nice work on finding that in Vista…
Nice find Dwayne!
This did not work for me. I followed the steps and no sound was heard when I pressed the Caps lock key. And yes, I do have my sound turned on (first thing I would have asked someone). Any other settings that need to be changed???
This did not work for me. I followed the steps and no sound was heard when I pressed the Caps lock key. And yes, I do have my sound turned on Any other settings that need to be changed?
perhaps Chase and Pittaway have turned off system sounds (the one that has nothing to do with loudspeakers etc)…
i had a visual notification pop up above the task bar by the bottom right corner of my screen when i pressed caps lock….all of a sudden it no longer works…..i'm deaf so audible notification is no good…wish the visual one would come back…think it was an update that made it dissapear, not sure but it's definately gone..
simple and sweet. Just the way I like it at "how to geek"
It didn't work for me eather
I have been saveng this for when I got the new rig up and running. As soon as I followed the directiions it became functional. Thank you.
(Incidentally, I've misplaced the info for a software that would provide a hot key to reverse capitalizaton once you realized you had typed a slew of it. Guess I won't need it until I've gone deaf).
Have followed direction about the cap lock key but something is amiss, this does noT WORK for me, as you can i hit the cap lock key [noT Work]
and nothing changed, no sound, flah, blink or message[don't expect that]
happened, any advise.?