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by oldmill.gav

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Our system at work requires us to have CAPS LOCK on and I am trying to automate the process.

Can I start a remote desktop session that has
CAPS LOCK on for different users?

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by rob miners

Open the registry and goto:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard

Change the value of InitialKeyboardIndicators to whichever state you wish?

0 - Indicators off
1 - Caps Lock on
2 - Num Lock on
3 - Caps Lock on and Num Lock on
4 - Scroll Lock on
5 - Caps Lock on and Scroll Lock on
6 - Num Lock on and Scroll Lock on
7 - Caps Lock on, Num Lock on, and Scroll Lock on

Close regedit?. and reboot.

You should always backup your registry before making modifications.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard]
"InitialKeyboardIndicators"="3"

by oldmill.gav

have tried this approach but everytime I reboot it seems to be reset to 2! maybe i am missing something simple...

by rob miners

as I can't get it to work either. I don't know if you are interested but I have worked out another way of turning Caps Lock on.

Contents of the batch file that a shortcut to, could be placed in All Users Startup.

caps.cmd

:: Call VBScript

wscript c:\CAPS.vbs
---------------------

caps.vbs

Contents of the VB Script

set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.SendKeys ("{CAPSLOCK}")

by oldmill.gav

champion!

do you know how many websites there are describing that exact problem with no one finding a resolution?

thanks a lot!

by rob miners

I'm glad that it will help you. Thanks for the Thumb.

by seanferd

Senkeys capslock, that is. I've read it reverts as soon as whatever is after the sendkeys command is sent, so I didn't suggest it.

Cool!

by rob miners

well enough to catch me typing in upper case. SendKeys can be very handy especially where repartition is involved.
I would still like to know why the registry wouldn't retain the changes.

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