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Hey, hey. I love Windows CLI. It is very useful. On 2/7/2013 10:37 AM, Fishbeck, John wrote: > "I call for the abolishment of the ... Pause | Break keys!" > > Eh, not so fast there, Bucko... > > There are a few of us dinosaurs still around who actually do occasional work at the Windows CLI (and yes, Virginia, there is a Windows 'shell' CLI environment), where the Break key is recognized by most command line utilities and will get you out of a hung/looping program. And the pause key still works in that environment as well. > > And, yes, I do still use the Caps Lock key occasionally. Just because I DON'T TYPE IN ALL UPPER CASE doesn't mean that I don't occasionally use, and find handy, the Caps Lock key (refer to earlier poster's comment re: coding SQL statements). > > You are welcome to ditch the scroll lock key, though - I never have found any particular use for that one. > > I do realize that we're gradually headed into a Brave New World (tm) where we'll never touch a key again, but please - let's not get carried away until my dead, cold fingers are pried off the keyboard. Which probably won't be all that long now. Patience, young ones... > > Regards, > > John Fishbeck > Physical Plant > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kim Geiger [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 10:25 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] How do you disable Caps Lock for your fleet PCs? > -- Oscar Castaņeda Remote Sensing & GIS Michigan State University