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Toggle Keys won't survive a reboot
I am running Windows 8.1 Home on a new HP desktop that came with
the OS pre-installed. I like engaging Toggle Keys so that a tone sounds when I hit the Caps Lock key (which I do inadvertently when trying to hit the Tab key). But every time I reboot, I have to press and hold the NumLock key for five seconds in order to reimplement Toggle Keys. Is there something that I can do to make Toggle Keys "sticky" through reboots? My PC is bone stock except for also having Start8 installed. (But I had Start8 installed on my old HP which had Windows 8.1 Pro and didn't have this problem.) Thanks in advance for your help. |
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Toggle Keys won't survive a reboot
On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:39:22 -0600, Kirk Bubul
wrote: I am running Windows 8.1 Home on a new HP desktop that came with the OS pre-installed. I like engaging Toggle Keys so that a tone sounds when I hit the Caps Lock key (which I do inadvertently when trying to hit the Tab key). But every time I reboot, I have to press and hold the NumLock key for five seconds in order to reimplement Toggle Keys. Is there something that I can do to make Toggle Keys "sticky" through reboots? I don't know, but if you are like me, you never want to use Caps Lock. If so, you might want to install and use the free Sharpkeys at http://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/. I use it to turn off the Caps Lock and Insert keys entirely; they do nothing. |
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Toggle Keys won't survive a reboot
On 1/18/2014 11:53 AM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:39:22 -0600, Kirk wrote: I am running Windows 8.1 Home on a new HP desktop that came with the OS pre-installed. I like engaging Toggle Keys so that a tone sounds when I hit the Caps Lock key (which I do inadvertently when trying to hit the Tab key). But every time I reboot, I have to press and hold the NumLock key for five seconds in order to reimplement Toggle Keys. Is there something that I can do to make Toggle Keys "sticky" through reboots? I don't know, but if you are like me, you never want to use Caps Lock. If so, you might want to install and use the free Sharpkeys at http://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/. I use it to turn off the Caps Lock and Insert keys entirely; they do nothing. Yeah I too don't quite understand what you want to do. And as posted by Ken there are utilities that does things like this. Although I think I use what you would like. Although the catch is it only works with Logitech keyboards and with their program called SetPoint. So you have to purchase a Logitech keyboard first. Why would you want to? Well some of them have special Windows 8 hotkeys. I find this super handy and saves me a lot of wasted time. I use the same keyboard on non-Windows 8 machines too and you can reassign those same special keys to do many different things. For example I am using it right now under XP. And like Ken I too turn off the Insert key. I could turn off Capslock too, but I actually use it a couple of times per year. But with SetPoint, I have it set to pop up a transparent window saying Capslocks on or off when changed (which fades in a second or two) and also to add a tone. Just in case I accidentally hit it while not looking at the screen. -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 ('09 era) - Thunderbird v12 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5 GHz - 2GB RAM Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2 |
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Toggle Keys won't survive a reboot
Kirk Bubul wrote:
I am running Windows 8.1 Home on a new HP desktop that came with the OS pre-installed. I like engaging Toggle Keys so that a tone sounds when I hit the Caps Lock key (which I do inadvertently when trying to hit the Tab key). But every time I reboot, I have to press and hold the NumLock key for five seconds in order to reimplement Toggle Keys. Is there something that I can do to make Toggle Keys "sticky" through reboots? My PC is bone stock except for also having Start8 installed. (But I had Start8 installed on my old HP which had Windows 8.1 Pro and didn't have this problem.) Thanks in advance for your help. I can see a reference here, but can't test it right now. They list some registry entries you could access from Regedit. http://unattended.msfn.org/unattende...04a5715e6c50c/ ; Enable Toggle Keys [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\ToggleKeys] "Flags"="63" And that doesn't even mean the value is persistent. And that registry key is likely for a different OS, as the posting is from 2006. Paul |
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On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:05:32 -0500, Paul
wrote: Snip I can see a reference here, but can't test it right now. They list some registry entries you could access from Regedit. http://unattended.msfn.org/unattende...04a5715e6c50c/ ; Enable Toggle Keys [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\ToggleKeys] "Flags"="63" And that doesn't even mean the value is persistent. And that registry key is likely for a different OS, as the posting is from 2006. Paul I looked in the Registry and found this value in the same place in Windows 8.1. However, the value on my Registry was "62." I changed it to "63" and the toggle sound survived one test reboot. |
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Toggle Keys won't survive a reboot
"Kirk Bubul" wrote:
I am running Windows 8.1 Home on a new HP desktop that came with the OS pre-installed. I like engaging Toggle Keys so that a tone sounds when I hit the Caps Lock key (which I do inadvertently when trying to hit the Tab key). But every time I reboot, I have to press and hold the NumLock key for five seconds in order to reimplement Toggle Keys. Is there something that I can do to make Toggle Keys "sticky" through reboots? The system is doing what you've asked it to do...although our friends at Microsoft didn't make it clear that more steps were needed. By default you can turn ToggleKeys on by holding down the NumLock key for five seconds, but that's not a persistent setting. To permanently turn on ToggleKeys: Open the Control Panel If you display categories in the Control Panel, click on "Ease of Access", then click "Change how your keyboard works". If you display icons, click "Ease of Access Center", then click "Make the keyboard easier to use". Under "Make it easier to type" you'll see a checked box next to the label "Turn on ToggleKeys by holding down the NUM LOCAK key for 5 seconds". Just above it is an UNCHECKED box "Turn on ToggleKeys". Click the "Turn on ToggleKeys" box and verify that it's now checked, click APPLY, click OK. ToggleKeys will now be on and will continue to be on after booting. I'll guess that after you made the Registry change that Paul provided the "Turn on ToggleKeys" box is already checked on your system...but you now have the ability to set it via the Control Panel. Joe |
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Toggle Keys won't survive a reboot
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:22:47 -0500, "Joe Morris"
wrote: ToggleKeys" box and verify that it's now checked, click APPLY, click OK. ToggleKeys will now be on and will continue to be on after booting. Thanks, Joe. When I went into Control Panel, I found that both the boxes were checked. Perhaps changing the Registry value to "63" did that. The Toggle Keys entry has persisted through several bootups since making the Registry change. So I'm hoping that my problem is solved. |
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