Windows 10: CAP LOCK KEY STUCK, UNABLE TO TURN IT OFF SINCE INSTALLING WINDOWS 11

Discus and support CAP LOCK KEY STUCK, UNABLE TO TURN IT OFF SINCE INSTALLING WINDOWS 11 in Windows 10 Gaming to solve the problem; CAPS LOCK APPEARS STUCK AFTER RESTART TO WINDOWS 11... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Gaming' started by Maria Campanella, Oct 4, 2024.

  1. CAP LOCK KEY STUCK, UNABLE TO TURN IT OFF SINCE INSTALLING WINDOWS 11


    CAPS LOCK APPEARS STUCK AFTER RESTART TO WINDOWS 11

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    Maria Campanella, Oct 4, 2024
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  2. How to fix a stuck keyboard because of the Caps Lock key couldn't turn off?

    Hello! So, let me explain my problem here. My windows 11 laptop keyboard would usually works fine, but once i turn on the Caps Lock key, the key won't turn off and all of the keys became stuck.

    I've already tried to fix that with changing the keys for turning off the Caps Lock with Shift. It works well for a few weeks, but it keeps on getting stuck too now. Is there any other way to fix this problem?

    Thank you in advance!
     
    July Anindya, Oct 4, 2024
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  4. MiSt77 Win User

    CAP LOCK KEY STUCK, UNABLE TO TURN IT OFF SINCE INSTALLING WINDOWS 11

    Press Shift Key to turn off Caps Lock

    Actually, I get asked this quite a lot

    There is, however, a very good reason to prefer this (old) „Typewriter Caps lock“-behavior over the new default, and it's simply this: if „Press the SHIFT key“ (instead of „Press the CAPS LOCK key“) is selected, then the behavior of „Caps lock“ changes from being a „toggle key“ to being a key that can only be used to turn „Caps lock“ on – to turn „Caps lock“ off, one has to press (either) one of the Shift keys.

    This can be advantageous for touch typists, who are used to writing long passages of text without looking at the keyboard, and especially so if they're (C/C++) programmers, who may still regularly find themselves typing in variable names of CONSTANTS_IN_UPPERCASE.

    That's because, if Caps lock is not a toggle key, it's not necessary to keep track of its current „toggle state“ in your head:

    • If I want „Caps lock“ to be on, I can press CAPS as often as I like. If it happened to be enabled already, nothing changes; otherwise, I can be sure it's enabled afterwards.

    • If I want „Caps lock“ to be off, I can simply press SHIFT
    This sounds like a hypothetical advantage, but it's not. I work as a programmer, and I often find myself typing in code like the following:

    /* Some debugging code; will only be included in debug builds: */
    #if defined _DEBUG

    Afterwards, I may pause a little, to think about the code line I would like to type in next. Now, if „Caps lock“ is a toggle key, I may (once I decide to continue) be unsure if I actually remembered to turn „Caps lock“ off at the end of ‘_DEBUG’.

    Did I? Did I not? – The only way to be sure, is to look.

    This is not so, if the „Press the SHIFT key“ behavior is enabled. If unsure, I can just press SHIFT once, be sure of the set state, and merrily continue may way.

    That, for me, is the single most important reason to prefer the „Press the SHIFT key“ setting. Also, interestingly, this used to be the default behavior in the old days … at least, until Microsoft decided to ditch Windows 9x in favor of Windows NT¹.

    ¹ Actually, my memory could be wrong in this regard and I'm not completely sure … maybe someone more knowledgeable in those matters can confirm that the „Caps lock“ default behavior was indeed changed during the switch from Windows 9x to Windows XP?
     
    MiSt77, Oct 4, 2024
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