Caps Lock Sound

[Guest Alan]

I am using XP Service Pack 2, and I get sounds for almost everything except

Caps Lock. I have set toggle in Accessibility Options, But still no sound. Can

someone help please?

 

Alamo

[Guest Mike Cawood, HND BIT]

Re: Caps Lock Sound

 

"Alan" <Alan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:80E0D42E-7D18-4501-A9B9-613C5C6BA8A1@microsoft.com...

> I am using XP Service Pack 2, and I get sounds for almost everything

> except

> Caps Lock. I have set toggle in Accessibility Options, But still no sound.

> Can

> someone help please?

>

> Alamo

 

Windows doesn't provide a sound for the caps lock key.

A sound might be provided by your keyboard driver program, particularly if

it's a cordless keyboard.

Regards Mike.

[Guest Nightowl]

Re: Caps Lock Sound

 

Alan <Alan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Thu, 21 Aug 2008:

> I am using XP Service Pack 2, and I get sounds for almost everything except

>Caps Lock. I have set toggle in Accessibility Options, But still no sound. Can

>someone help please?

 

Mike Cawood wrote:

>>Windows doesn't provide a sound for the caps lock key. A sound might

>>be provided by your keyboard driver program, particularly if it's a

>>cordless keyboard.

 

 

It's true Windows doesn't have a "system event" sound for Caps Lock, but

ToggleKeys in Accessibility Options *does* offer the facility to play

tones when this key, Num Lock or Scroll Lock are pressed.

 

Alan, the sound you should be hearing comes from the PC speaker (inside

the case), not from the sound system. First I'd check you don't have

this switched off: right-click the volume control icon in your taskbar

and open your volume control settings. If you see a slider for PC Beep

or PC Sound, make sure it's turned up to a reasonable level and that the

Mute box isn't checked.

 

If that doesn't help, it's possible that your PC speaker isn't

connected, or that you don't have one (some modern systems don't). If

that's the case, you could use a free third-party utility like this one:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/firstcap.html

which allows you to assign any .wav sound to the keypress instead. This

is just an example (but one I've tried :-); Google has many more.

 

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get on.

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Nightowl