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Caps Lock to disable it permanently: how to

  • Oct 25, 2025
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Capslock (the caps lock key on your keyboard), you can disable it permanently. We will show you how to do that.

The caps lock key by mapping disable

You know this for sure: Short accidentally the caps lock key is touched and the rEST of the TEXT LOOKS like this: With the help of a small entry in the Registry, you can the Capslock key and the Shift-command-map:
  1. Create a new text file in a Windows folder, right-click and "New" -> "text document" to select.
  2. You can open the empty file and copy one of the mentioned in section 3 Text:
  3. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,2 a,00,3 a,00,00,00,00,00
  4. Save this file and rename it to "capslock_to_shift.reg" to.
  5. Run the file with a double click. You may also need to confirm that the program makes Changes to your Computer.
  6. You restart your Computer. The locking button is engaged with the Shift function and is thus equal to the shift key.
  7. To undo the Change, generate them the same way a "capslock_reactivate.reg"file with the following content:
  8. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=-

The caps lock key to disable completely

The caps lock key umzubelegen does not always work. Especially in Windows 7 errors can sometimes occur. So you can put the Caps-Lock key entirely lame:
  1. You create a text file and paste the Text under point 2:
  2. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3 a,00,00,00,00,00
  3. Save it as described above as a BAT file, run it, and restart your PC.
  4. The Capslock key is now switched off permanently. In order to make the action to undo, you can use the same Code as above in point 8.
Further Changes in the Registry, you can with the help of the CCleaner make. In this case, you must be careful. In the Registry the fundamental settings, their Change can damage your System seriously are.
How to use the number pad to permanently activate you will learn in the next tip.

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