Re: Num/Caps/Scroll Lock: ON/OFF notification in windows

Sounds like some feature added via your keyboard driver.

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"Ben Cottrell" wrote:
| Hello, I've managed to enable a slightly annoying feature, which I
| believe is a standard part of windows, although I've never seen it
| before, so I may be wrong.
|
| Whenever I hit the num lock, scroll lock or caps lock keys, I get a
| small notification of the fact just above my system tray, telling me
| whether or not the feature is enabled. Aside from the fact that it's a
| completely useless feature (my keyboard can tell me that), it interferes
| with Direct3D and OpenGL games & applications, forcing a momentary pause
| where windows pops up behind the app, and then jumps back down again,
| each time I press one of the toggle keys on the keyboard.
|
| I have been through the settings of 3rd party driver utils (such as the
| ATI Control centre and Razer control centre), and i'm unable to find any
| setting which controls such behavior, however, I cannot find any
| references to it in windows' control panel either.
|
| A google search mainly threw up links for toggling num lock on and off
| using C++, but all I want to do is get rid of the message
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
|
|
| Best Regards
|
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| Ben Cottrell


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