Shift key to release caps lock

Anonymous
2010-11-17T05:37:22+00:00

Earlier versions of Windows contained a switch that would allow pressing either shift key to release the caps lock key, creating an action similar to that of a typewriter. I have not been able to find this switch in Windows 7. Can someone help?

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Anonymous
2011-02-08T14:10:10+00:00

Here's the REAL answer, not someone talking down to you. Shame on LVTravel, and shame on Adam-Support Engineer , who marked LVTravel's post as an answer.

  • Go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Keyboards & Languages > Change Keyboard > Advanced Key Settings.

There you will find the setting to turn off Caps Lock with the SHIFT key, as it should be by default.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-04-10T18:00:36+00:00

    IT's the keyboard KEY just ABOVE the Left Hand-side SHIFT key. Of the keyboard.

    You say that there has always been a 'switch' that 'releases' the caps lock key...in earlier versions of Windows, excuse me, what flipping planet did you come from????!

    From as far back as windows 3.1, on a QWERTY keyboard.......................the 'above-mentioned key' has been the ONLY method of CHOOSING either UPPER-CASE or lower-case.

    And, it remains that way....even to today!

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-04-10T16:47:00+00:00

    Awesome - precisely what I needed - thanks!

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-05-04T21:15:42+00:00

    I have the Caps Locks key disabled but sometimes windows 7 puts me in the caps lock mode anyway(bug in windows 7?).  The correct answer is to make shift unlock the Caps Lock until Windows 7 is fixed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-09-29T06:29:09+00:00

    Good job, mr1900! Easy, straightforward, no registry to muck around with and it works. This thread may be ten years old- but to anyone doing a search like I just did to find this info, it is still valid and helpful.

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