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Disable Caps Lock on Mac OS X

By far the most frustrating key on the keyboard has to be CAPS LOCK. Does any one ever use this key!? After many years of accidentally pressing it, I finally stumbled upon the way to disable it.

Go to the Keyboard & Mouse Preferences
Select Modifier Keys
And change Caps Lock Key to No Action

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NOTE: On my Powerbook the Caps Lock Light still turns on and off when I press the button. On my Powermac and Macally keyboard the light stays off.

This works in Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger, I don’t think it works on earlier versions. You may want to try: uControl [gnufoo.org]

Next Week: What the hell is Scroll Lock and Pause good for

Comments 8

  1. tim baker wrote:

    Aaah! Bliss!! Caps Lock has been the bane of my life for years! Nothing worse than typing (usually a great idea) and then having to redo it all in lower case! Thank you thank you thank you

    Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 11:05 pm
  2. ernest leitch wrote:

    That was way to easy. Thank you sooo much. I always hit that stupid key by mistake.

    Posted 31 Oct 2007 at 7:09 pm
  3. Randy wrote:

    A great tip — I recently switched to Mac laptop for work and the caps lock key is one of the worst designed features of the keyboard, which otherwise I really like.

    Posted 11 Jan 2008 at 10:45 am
  4. don shafer wrote:

    Bless you!!!!

    Posted 14 Feb 2008 at 7:50 pm
  5. laurie wrote:

    Bless you, Marcus!!

    Posted 31 Mar 2008 at 11:52 am
  6. Jeb wrote:

    THANKS SO MUCH.

    Posted 14 Sep 2008 at 8:46 am
  7. MacBook Pro user wrote:

    Thanks so much.

    I’ve been looking for this for quite some time and you made my day.

    I hope the Caps Lock key will soon be removed from our keyboards. There would be better use for the space it occupies.

    Posted 03 Nov 2008 at 6:05 am
  8. Jan wrote:

    Oh I thank you so much for this!

    Posted 05 Dec 2008 at 11:52 pm

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