Tray caps lock indicator. How to turn off the Caps Lock indicator

Greetings, dear guests!

How often have you typed the password and were horrified to discover that it did not work, although you typed it correctly and the layout is correct? And only after a while, did you accidentally notice the Caps Lock indicator on? How did you feel at that moment?

And to type almost a paragraph of text and only after that, looking up at the screen, find the entire paragraph typed in CAPITAL LETTERS? And you, covered in righteous anger, are looking for a hammer-type tool to knock Caps Lock out of the keyboard forever. Or just glare at the poor key for a few seconds :)

Are the situations described above familiar? There is little pleasant in them, but there are solutions. I will share one of them today. This is the setting for the sounds when you press an unwanted key.

The bottom line is that in Windows you can enable sound notification when you press Caps Lock, as well as Num Lock and Scroll Lock. That is, if you accidentally pressed the caps lock, you will immediately understand your mistake by the sound. I use this method for myself and will tell you how to configure it on your computer. First, I'll show you using Windows 10 as an example, and a little below for Windows 7 and then XP.

Sound toggle Caps Lock for Windows 10

Open the Settings, the easiest way is with the Win + I key combination. Or through the Start -\u003e Settings button Now go to the section Special abilities .

Accessibility opens on the Narrator item, go to the Keyboard item and find the Sound switch section, which is disabled by default. A note under the heading tells us that “Served sound signal when you press the CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK or SCROLL LOCK keys. "

We switch it to On. Slightly below, an additional item "Turn on the sound of switches when pressing and holding the NUM LOCK key for 5 seconds" will immediately pop up.

With the second item enabled, you can turn off the sounds when you press the keys without going into the Options, holding down the Num Lock for 5 seconds until the characteristic sound. In the same way, you can turn it back on, however, when you turn it on, a small window pops up, in which you have to click Yes.

The settings are applied immediately, you can check. When the caps is turned on, there will be one sound, when turned off - another.

Sound toggle Caps Lock for Windows 7

how to make the caps lock keys and the other two beep when accidentally pressed

If your display of items in the Control Panel is set by category, then it will look like the second screenshot and you will have to make an extra click on the item.

After that we get to the section Making the keyboard easier to use, go to the section Simplify typing... Check the box Enable scoring of switches and click OK.

When the Caps Lock or Num Lock key is turned on on a laptop, then in most cases the user does not see any usual signs of their activity on the keyboard until he directly begins to type text or enter numbers in any of the applications ( text editor, browser, etc.).

With stationary personal computers the situation is much better, almost all keyboards have a light indicator for turning on such buttons.

If I never print large text in letters in, then naturally I could disable or reassign CapsLock. But with NumLock, the situation is completely different, I very often use digital block keyboard in your daily work.

Therefore, it would be much better if, if you accidentally press any of these keys, you could see their notification indicator on your Desktop and Taskbar. There is an exit!

This is “Indicator-keylock” for operating systems the Linux family, in particular. To install it, you can use the simplest method - this is to launch the "Program Manager", where you just need to type the name in the search bar and click the "Install" button.

And for those who like to work in the Terminal, it is necessary to consistently give the system the following commands.

After completing the entire process, you need to log out and log back in, or do a hard reboot.

CAPS LOCK

When you click it, you will receive, in addition to the notification of activity in the upper right corner, also the corresponding icon with the letter “A” on the taskbar.

NUM LOCK KEY. You will only receive a corresponding notification on the desktop about its activity (but you can make changes to the settings).

INDICATOR PARAMETERS... By right-clicking on the “A” icon, you can customize any of the settings to suit your needs.

When you change any of the settings, all the changes take effect immediately. Experiment. That's all! Review a list of all computer tips in the.

If, when you press Caps Lock, the game is minimized or the game switches to windowed mode, then the caps indicator on the screen is to blame. Which appears in the lower right corner of the screen each time you press Caps Lock or Num Lock.

Besides Caps lock and Num lock in the lower right corner of the screen above the clock a window pops up and on / off Scroll Lock.

A pop-up notification about the inclusion of Caps / Num Lock interferes not only in games, but also in many programs running in full screen mode and requiring these keys to be pressed.

For example, in GTA 5, the Caps Lock key turns on a special ability. And when you press it, the game switches to windowed mode, which is simply unacceptable! You can, of course, change the assignment of the keys, but in the same GTA V, almost all the keys are occupied, and besides, this will not solve the problem globally.

To get rid of this notification, you need to disable the program that displays it. You can do this at startup if you know what it is called.

It often happens that its name is unknown or there is no such program in startup. Especially often it happens in laptops.

As it turned out, caps Lock notification is issued by BTTray.exe process which can only be disabled in the registry.

How to enter the registry:

Start\u003e Run\u003e enter "regedit" and go to the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\u003e SOFTWARE\u003e Widcomm\u003e BTConfig\u003e General\u003e KeyIndication\u003e change the value of "KeyIndication" instead of "1" put "0". Click OK and close the registry editor.

Restart your computer and rejoice in the absence of this nasty notification!

P.S. Thanks to nude users, another solution to this problem has been found:

In start-up we write msconfig, select there, find the program BTTrayand remove it from startup. This software starts after installation wireless headphone and similar devices on Bluetooth.