• Mac OS X

    Disable Caps Lock in Mac OS X

    I don’t think I’ve actually used the caps lock key in years. Well, scratch that, I’ve frustratingly used it by accident. I did a post a couple of years back with a couple of ways to disable it for Windows. But recently I’ve been doing a lot of work and have accidentally made the amount of work a little more by enabling the caps lock key and typing entire paragraphs. So to disable, open the Keyboard & Mouse Preference Pane from System Preferences and then click on Modifier Keys. From here, change the Caps Lock Key value to No Action. Check out com.apple.systempreferences.plist and the com.apple.preference.keyboard.config array within it for…

  • Windows XP

    Disable Caps Lock in Windows

    You can disable the caps lock key in Windows by editing the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlKeyboard Layout registry key. Here, you’ll see Scancode Map, which should be set to the hex value of 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00 if you want to disable caps lock. MysterCrowley.com has a number of useful little applications. One of which runs the registry hack to disable the caps lock key for you. It’s called Numlocker. Another, keyboardlink allows you to assign shortcuts in strange ways that you couldn’t otherwise assign shortcuts, also using the scancode maps.