Caps Lock Key acts just like Tab key

[Robertwf]

I have a huge dilemma that is baffling me. I have a Brand New HP ProBook 450 G3 straight out of the box that I am setting up for a client and I cloned the SATA HDD to a SSD with Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit OS on it. Now my dilemma is that when it boots up I go to rename the computer name and when I press the Caps Lock Key it acts just like the Tab key, Tabbing through everything and still functions like the caps key. I have checked everything that I can think of and what I have read on other issues but nothing seems to work. The only thing that I haven't tried is from one post that someone opened up Word and typed the following, "tHANKS" and let it auto correct but I don't think this will fix my problem. I'm thinking something went wrong with the install of the OS but not sure what is going on and will continue to search for some type of resolution. If anyone has seen this and knows how to fix it, I will greatly appreciate it.

[ichi730]

Hi,

I think remapping the CAPS Key via registry will do. If you are comfortable changing some values with the registry entries this guide will help you. You can reinstall it if dont want to.

Note: Do this at your own risk

Understanding How Windows Key Re-Mapping Works

Windows doesn’t have a default setting to allow for disabling the key, so what we have to do is re-map the key to something non-existent so as to completely disable it. To do this manually, you’d open up regedit.exe and browse down to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout

Here’s the format of the binary data in the Scancode Map key, with the important parts in bold and various colors:

00000000 00000000 02000000 00003A00 00000000

Here’s how it works:

• The first 16 zeros are just there to waste space.
• The “02” in bold represents how many keys you are going to re-map plus 1. (It really represents the length of the data, but whatever)
• The orange bolded “0000” is the key we actually want Windows to map TO, which in this case is nothing, or 0.
• The blue bolded “3A00” is the key we are mapping from, in this case the caps lock key.
• The next 8 zeros are there to waste space as the null terminator.

You can map between multiple keys by incrementing the “02” and then adding another of the colorful bold blocks in the middle. The 3A00 in the mix is the scan code.  For example, if you wanted to disable the caps lock key and then change scroll lock into a caps lock key:

00000000 00000000 03000000 00003A00 3A004600 00000000

It might seem complicated, but it’s really fairly simple once you start working with it.

Downloadable Registry Hack to Disable or Remap the Caps Lock Key

Now that you’ve learned how these things work internally, you can download and extract the zipfile which contains the following files:

ChangeCapsToControl.reg                           Changes Caps Lock to be a Control key

ChangeCapsToShift.reg                                Changes Caps Lock to be a Shift key

SwitchCapsToScrollLock.reg                      Disables Caps Lock and swaps Scroll lock to be Caps Lock

KillCapsLock.reg                                              Disables Caps Lock

DisableKeyboardRemap                              Uninstalls the preference by deleting the key

Once you’ve applied one of these registry files, you’ll have to reboot your computer for it to work. To uninstall, you can use the uninstall registry tweak, or you can simply delete the Scancode Map key entirely.

Download Keyboard Mappings Registry Tweaks