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kimbles88

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January 15th, 2012 12:00

caps lock stealing focus

hey guys

i've had my dell laptop for a couple of months now and everything worked great up until about 10 mins ago when every time i pressed my caps lock on it steals focus away from whatever i'm doing and i have to click back onto the page to continue typing. i've read about disabling the quickset buttons but i like the notifications is there any way of stopping this from happening without doing that?

thanks.

Bay Wolf

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January 15th, 2012 15:00

Fix the Cap Lock Stealing the Focus issue

When you press the Cap Lock key, it steals the focus away from your active document/window.
Here's how to fix it.

  1. Click on Start and then Run.
  2. In the text box in the Run window, type regedit and click OK. This will open the Registry Editor program.
  3. Locate the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder under My Computer and click on the (+) sign next the folder name to expand the folder.
  4. Continue to expand folders until you reach the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel registry key.
  5. Select the Desktop key under Control Panel.
  6. On the right-hand side of the screen, locate and double-click on the ForegroundLockTimeout DWORD.
  7. In the Edit DWORD Value window that appears, set the Value data: field to 30d40. 

    Note: Make sure the Base option is set to Hexadecimal when entering the DWORD value.

  8. Click OK and then close Registry Editor.
  9. Reboot your PC for the changes you made to take effect.

From this point forward, programs should no longer steal the focus from the window that you're currently working in.

 

kimbles88

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January 19th, 2012 02:00

Thanks Bay Wolf! I emailed the Dell support team as well and the suggestions they gave me were to update the software, which I did but it didn't work, but your method worked perfect. I can now type with capitals again. Thank you.

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