How To Disable Caps Lock On Windows 10. In this article, you will learn a method to disable Caps Lock and how to re-enable the disabled caps lock key. A caps lock is an essential key when it comes to writing. When it is enabled, the letters get typed in capital form. You can also type capitalized letters by holding the Shift key and then pressing the letter.
Many users prefer to use the second method to type the capital letter to avoid the hassle of turning the caps lock on or off. If you don’t use the caps lock and are even not interested in using it in the future, then you can disable it.
How To Disable Caps Lock On Windows 10?
There is no specific option given in Windows 10 to disable the caps lock, however, you can disable it by changing the key mapping for your keyboards in the Registry. You can remap the caps lock key to a key that is not present on your keyboard. In this way, there will be no caps lock key in the keyboard that can get activated.
To remap the caps lock key to a missing key using the registry:
1.Open the Run utility by pressing the Windows + R keys.
2.Type regedit.
3.Press Enter to open the Registry Editor on your screen.
4.Go to the following registry key (just copy and paste it to the registry location bar):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout
5.Now on the right panel, right-click on the empty area.
6.Select the ” New ” option.
7.Click on the ” Binary Value ” option from the pop-up menu.
8.Name it ” Scancode Map “.
9.If a Binary Value named Scancode Map is already present, then right-click on it and select the ” Modify ” option.
10.Enter the following value in the Value data section:
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3A,00,00,00,00,00
11.Select the OK option to save the changes.
12.Finally, restart the computer.
13.After the computer restarts, the caps lock key won’t work anymore.
How To Re-enable The Disabled Caps Lock Key?
If you want to enable the disabled caps lock key, then delete the Scancode Map Binary value that you created.
The value we entered in the Scancode Map was 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3A,00,00,00,00,00, which disabled the caps lock.
The section of 02 means the number of keys to remap + 1 and the value 3A is the caps lock key. The 00,00 that came before it represents the new key Caps lock is being mapped to. This disables the caps lock in this situation.