It is the Dell Quickset options that are doing it. Dell did alot of things that caused me problems.
You will notice that the Caps lock or Num lock displays briefly what looks like an A in a padlock. You lose the window you are typing in, and have the reverse problem when trying to go back to lowercase. I found it horribly frustrating and no one anywhere seemed to know how to simply turn it off. Suggestions were being made to uninstall it, but I feared that would make me lose something valuable in Quickset.
Here is what I figured out for Windows 7 to very very easily change the Caps/Num lock issue:
Right click on the Desktop. Select Personalize in dialog box. In lower left, select "ease of access center". When that opens, select 'make the keyboard easier to use'. When that opens, click 'turn on toggle keys' (puts a check mark by it). Click button to Apply change, then OK and close the window. All done! Note that now when you type, the A button will still show but it will make a noise and go away in a second, but typing is now normal. At least what I consider normal for my typing!
more tidbits I encountered..
I had problems with the mouse doing what seemed like crazy stuff too. I had to turn off the Enable Zoom option, under Mouse settings, Dell Touchpad, Scrolling & Zoom settings.
I also had problems with the Function keys being backwards from what I am used to. Inspiron 1545 comes configured for Multimedia Fkeys. You can drill down to the quickset program to change it - in Program files, Dell, Quickset, then right click the quickset to either create a desktop shortcut, or pin to taskbar. Then open it and you can change the 'Function key row' to set as Function keys instead. I did it by changing the BIOS (using F2 while Windows was coming up). This looks to be a much more user-friendly way to accomplish the same thing.
Another note: Control panel is much easier for me to use with Small Icons instead of by Category. Right click to switch that any.
I had the problem with Outlook. I went to Tools - Options - Mail Format tab. For 'compose in this message format' - changed from "HTML" to "Rich Text". Problem gone!
I had the same problem. It took me an hour of looking around to find out. Right click on the desk top and select personalize. Bottom left you will see "ease of access centre". Select this, then click "start on screen keyboard". You may have to select show numberic key board, but there you will see a number lock key on screen. If it is highlighted white, click with mouse and it will become black, and that's it, your number lock is off. Better still it appears to keep this setting when you turn off and reboot.
jenab
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February 11th, 2010 08:00
It is the Dell Quickset options that are doing it. Dell did alot of things that caused me problems.
You will notice that the Caps lock or Num lock displays briefly what looks like an A in a padlock. You lose the window you are typing in, and have the reverse problem when trying to go back to lowercase. I found it horribly frustrating and no one anywhere seemed to know how to simply turn it off. Suggestions were being made to uninstall it, but I feared that would make me lose something valuable in Quickset.
Here is what I figured out for Windows 7 to very very easily change the Caps/Num lock issue:
Right click on the Desktop. Select Personalize in dialog box. In lower left, select "ease of access center". When that opens, select 'make the keyboard easier to use'. When that opens, click 'turn on toggle keys' (puts a check mark by it). Click button to Apply change, then OK and close the window. All done! Note that now when you type, the A button will still show but it will make a noise and go away in a second, but typing is now normal. At least what I consider normal for my typing!
more tidbits I encountered..
I had problems with the mouse doing what seemed like crazy stuff too. I had to turn off the Enable Zoom option, under Mouse settings, Dell Touchpad, Scrolling & Zoom settings.
I also had problems with the Function keys being backwards from what I am used to. Inspiron 1545 comes configured for Multimedia Fkeys. You can drill down to the quickset program to change it - in Program files, Dell, Quickset, then right click the quickset to either create a desktop shortcut, or pin to taskbar. Then open it and you can change the 'Function key row' to set as Function keys instead. I did it by changing the BIOS (using F2 while Windows was coming up). This looks to be a much more user-friendly way to accomplish the same thing.
Another note: Control panel is much easier for me to use with Small Icons instead of by Category. Right click to switch that any.
GOOD LUCK!!
jenab
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July 13th, 2010 08:00
I had the problem with Outlook. I went to Tools - Options - Mail Format tab. For 'compose in this message format' - changed from "HTML" to "Rich Text". Problem gone!
Naki.Lad
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February 18th, 2014 01:00
I had the same problem. It took me an hour of looking around to find out. Right click on the desk top and select personalize. Bottom left you will see "ease of access centre". Select this, then click "start on screen keyboard". You may have to select show numberic key board, but there you will see a number lock key on screen. If it is highlighted white, click with mouse and it will become black, and that's it, your number lock is off. Better still it appears to keep this setting when you turn off and reboot.
How happy was I to find that!