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ieure Author

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Disabling the caps lock delay on the aluminum keyboard

Is there any way of turning off the accidental caps-lock press prevention on the new Apple keyboards? ( http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/07/new-apple-keyboard-has-protection-against-acciden tal-caps-lock/)

I use my caps lock key as Control (SysPrefs -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard -> Modified Keys), and the bounce protection cause me no end of trouble - it is still enabled, though I am not using that key for caps lock.

I called Apple support, and they told me to return the keyboard. I do not think this will make a difference, but maybe a Genius can help me out.

15.4" MacBook Pro, 2.4ghz, 2gb, 160gb @5400rpm, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Oct 8, 2007 10:00 AM

46 replies

Jul 11, 2008 3:57 PM in response to ieure

Simple Fix!

I have a MBP and found a very simple fix:
- Open Preferences under Parallels Desktop
- Select the tab that says "Keyboard"
- Under "Remap Keys" change the default "remap" setting to "Swap CMD/CNTRL"
- Restart Parallels

I hope this works for others, too!

heidi

Disabling the caps lock delay on the aluminum keyboard

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