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Jammed capslock
Name: H898 Date: April 16, 2006 at 13:58:24 Pacific OS: Xp Home Edition CPU/Ram: 512 DDR ATHLON XP 1.8 Product: NONE CUSTOM MADE
Comment:
I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY MY KEYBOARD HAS SUDDENLY DECIDED TO JAM THE CAPSLOCK KEY WHEN I PRESS IT AND THE ONLY WAY I CAN TAKE CAPSLOCK OFF IS TO PRESS THE s--- KEY IT A PROBLEM THATS DRIVING ME NUTS IVE TRIED SWAPPING IT,TAKEING THE DRIVERS OFF CHKIN FOR ANY WINDOWS UPDATESN ALSO LOADED FALE SAFE DEAFULTS IS THIS A WINDOWS PROBLEM OR A PORT PROBLEM IF I GO TO DOS I CAN TAKE CAPSLOCK ON AND OFF WITH NO PROBLEMS N I HAVE CHED THE ENGLISH UK SETTINGS R ON
Name: GX1 Man Date: April 16, 2006 at 18:05:39 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried a different keyboard?
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Response Number 2
Name: H898 Date: April 17, 2006 at 01:39:47 Pacific
Reply:
Yea it still does it
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: April 17, 2006 at 04:50:54 Pacific
Reply:
My customer's workstations use XP Regional & Language options to switch language. Once the user applied R&L the Caps Lock key is freezed. They can only use the Shift key to disable the Caps Lock key. Maybe this is what happened to you?
i_XpUser
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Response Number 4
Name: H898 Date: April 17, 2006 at 14:09:23 Pacific
Reply:
yep er sounds like it how do u undo this n use capslock as normal
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Response Number 5
Name: H898 Date: April 30, 2006 at 06:39:18 Pacific
Reply:
its a pain to keep pressin shift to take caps lock off i am considering formattin to undo this but it seems a waste just 4 that reason how do i undo it without formattin
Once the user applied R&L the Caps Lock key is freezed. They can only use the Shift key to disable the Caps Lock key.
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