Rich,
This topic has come up in another context, see threads at
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/e-prime/b_dtTXuVdfg and
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/e-prime/dlyJfCHnBf0 .
(Spoiler alert: I recommended simply yanking out the offending keys,
and covering with epoxy if need be.)
-- dkm
At 2/6/2013 05:08 PM Wednesday, Richard Wiggins wrote:
>For many years I have found the Caps Lock key to most evil key on my
>computer. There is no reason why this key should appear on a modern
>computer. In modern times this key is useless. We simply do not type
>in all caps, for decades we do not. I would say it is useless since
>the 1980s, maybe the 1970s. We live in 2013, the 21st century, with
>a key that gets in the way every day, that not only serves no
>purpose, but in fact gets in the way.
>
>There is a registry hack that disables this Caps Lock key on
>Windows, or re-maps it. How do you inform your users how to disable
>Caps Lock? Why do Windows PCs even have the Caps Lock key?
>
>Do you do anything to disable this key for fleet PCs that you
>deploy? Do you advise end users how to disable the Caps Lock key,
>an artifact of the 1950s?
>
>What specific advice do you give your users?
>
>How have you contacted Microsoft and PC manufacturers with advice and concern?
>
>/rich
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