Talk:Caps Lock

International caps lock day

Really? Declared by who? Someone tell me so I can punch him in the face.85.24.168.123 (talk) 22:21, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

CAPS LOCK

What can you do if your caps lock key is sticking?If any ones looking at this ,tell me!

Clean your keyboard.

On some keyboards, you can safely remove the keycaps and clean out beneath them. (Check with your computer's manufacturer or vendor.) A sticky key is often due to dirt caught underneath the keycap or in the key mechanism. If you can't remove the keycaps, get a can of compressed air and blow it between the keys.

Or just try turning it upside down, holding it over a wastebaket, and gently shaking it.

(Oh -- unplug it before you do any of these things.) --FOo 07:51, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Cleaning the keyboard will work for debris but not for sticky stuff like soda and other sugary stuff. If you don't eat or drink when you're at your computer, you won't get your keyboard dirty to begin with. You'll also lose weight, because eating while doing other things is one of the top 5 gut expanders. I often refuse to help people with their computers, because their keyboard is too filthy.Bostoner (talk) 05:15, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Just break it off. It's pretty much useless anyways. 07:43, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

wHAT?? nEVER!! cAPS LOCK IS THE BEST KEY ON THE KEYBOARD pSYCHOMELODIC 21:33, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

YEAH CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL --Burbster 15:03, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Dammit, he beat me to it. On a side note, EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU STILL HAVE TO STEER -- Mik 23:35, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

caps lock aint important...GET A MAC

Last time I worked on a Mac it had a caps lock key. --Mathew 13:39, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

But it takes 5 seconds to disable the Caps Lock key on a Mac.

System Preferences->Keyboard and Mouse->Keyboard (tab)->Modifier Keys (button)

An options box appears for each modifier key. Set Caps Lock to either "No Action" or "Shift" according to taste.

The nice thing is that you can re-enable it in 5 seconds for the rare cases when you really want it.Bostoner (talk) 05:15, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

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Caps lock day? I think this should be removed from the entry. It is only listed in a couple small blogs and appears to be more of a silly prank... Jebba 06:28, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Results 1 - 10 of about 4,420,000 for caps lock day --lesalle 20:26, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

can someone please tell me why you can't just select text and then hit Caps Lock to either capitalize or decapitalize letters the same way you'd Bold or Underline something??? how many times have you typed something not realizeing the caps lock was on and then had to delete it and retype it. it's obnoxious. come on gates.... come on jobs..... this seems so easy!

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That "The caps lock is a key on a computer keyboard" is a historical coincidence- they happened to be on mechanical typewriters and ended up on computer keyboards where they hardly ever fulfilled a function. Maybe that should be mentioned. Spogelse 12:33, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

funny

the last guy whO EDITED THe page has a sense of humor... REVERTED! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sick&ridiculous (talk • contribs) 00:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

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There are known groups of people whose Internet communities are based entirely around the use of the caps lock key.

- shouldn't there be some citation or examples or links to such communities? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.169.20.217 (talk) 18:34, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

shouldn't there be some citation or examples or links to such communities?

I added one. Shouldn't there be some citation or examples or links giving evidence of the supposed 'Caps Lock Theory'? 99.130.38.50 (talk) 20:38, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Post a picture illustrating the physical design of the original caps lock mechanism (as in shift-lock)

The main article could be improved considerably if there were some discussion of the actual lever mechanism underneath the Shift Lock of the Commodore 64, or the Caps Lock of the IBM Selectric typewriter. Unlike modern PC keyboards, it behaved like the Shift-Lock or Caps Lock of 1970s and 1980s typewriters: the first time you pressed it, it went down, and entered into a latched position. It won't come up again - not even if you accidentally brush against it - until you deliberately press it a second time. Some of us consider this preferable to what passes for keyboards nowadays.

To illustrate this, somebody ought to post a picture of the latching mechanism under the caps lock (that is, shift lock) keys. 198.177.27.23 (talk) 07:47, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

"The Captin's Lock" appears bogus

With spelling mistakes and a non-verifiable reference - Tom Williams's articles appear to not include 'Yarrr ye pirates be scurvy dogs' - I'd say this section can be safely removed.