Re: Caps Lock: Can it be disabled?

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:17:27 -0400, "Frank-FL" <bbunny@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:


"scs0" <scs0@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:f66b8c4f-78cd-4a9b-a5e2-dc32292427e5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
No key on the keyboard is more annoying and more useless than the CAPS
Lock key. I accidently hit that thing at least 10 times a day and
then I'm forced to undo text changes because of it. Is there a way to
disable this key other than pulling it out of they keyboard? I'm
about to yank it from the keyboard but I'd like to know if there's a
better way of doing it.

I just get a big ho ho out the these types of post. Don't know how to
type, so they blame it on the Caps Lock Key. In other words everything
that one is incapable of doing is someone else's fault.



Sorry, but that's nonsense. Yes, that's correct--I don't know how to
type. I freely admit it. I went to school at a time when girls learned
to type, cook, and sew, and boys took things like wood shop.

I don't blame my inability to type properly on the caps lock key, but
I *do* recognize that, given my inability to type properly, the caps
lock key is an enormous hindrance to me. So I turn it off, and I am
instantly a better typist.

There's nothing with my doing that and there's nothing wrong with
someone else in the same position asking for help in turning it off.
Nobody has suggested that it should be turned off for everyone, but
turning it off greatly helps those of us who are handicapped typists.

And nobody even remotely suggested that "everything that one is
incapable of doing is someone else's fault."

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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