{"id":25607,"date":"2022-10-01T19:37:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=25607"},"modified":"2022-10-03T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:07:11","slug":"deactivate-caps-lock-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/25607\/deactivate-caps-lock-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Deactivate Caps Lock in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can I disable the Caps Lock key in Windows?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Caps Lock key is one of the most superfluous keys in the world. Since I&#8217;ve been using computers, I&#8217;ve never consciously switched to permanent capitalization. Instead, I usually press the key by accident, type text, and get annoyed with the capitalization. However, the key can be quickly disabled in Windows.<\/p>\n<p>This can be done via the registry. To do this, we start the registry editor of Windows.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of content<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/25607\/deactivate-caps-lock-in-windows\/#Video\" >Video<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/25607\/deactivate-caps-lock-in-windows\/#Instruction\" >Instruction<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Video\"><\/span>Video<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cvro7DpJ6so\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Instruction\"><\/span>Instruction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In the start menu we enter &#8220;regedit&#8221; and start the registry editor.<\/p>\n<p>Here we navigate to the following folder:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nComputer\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Keyboard Layout\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Here we create a new binary value.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/caps_en_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"788\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/caps_en_1.png 788w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/caps_en_1-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/caps_en_1-768x355.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We give this the name &#8220;Scancode Map&#8221;. Then we edit the key and enter the following value.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/caps_en_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"904\" height=\"490\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/caps_en_2.png 904w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/caps_en_2-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/caps_en_2-768x416.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We can do it faster by exporting a ready reg file with the key:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/capslock_deaktivieren.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">capslock_deactivate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After unpacking we start the file and confirm the prompt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/caps_en_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"180\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/caps_en_3.png 560w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/caps_en_3-300x96.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now we still need to restart the computer. After the restart, the Caps Lock key is disabled. To undo the change, simply delete the key from the registry and restart.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can I disable the Caps Lock key in Windows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1558],"class_list":["post-25607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-windows-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}