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THE TOGGLE KEYS FEATURE

You may have experienced this aggravation: you are typing along at a fast pace, you haven't looked at the screen as you do it, and suddenly when you glance at the screen you see that you must have accidentally pushed the Caps Lock key a while back. Now you have to laboriously retype the part that you didn't want in caps. Wouldn't it be nice if Windows gave you some kind of audial signal that you have clicked the Caps Lock key? Well, guess what, it can. All you have to do is install the Windows Accessibility Option Toggle Keys feature. You do this by: click on the Start button, click on Settings, then Control Panel, then double-click on Accessibility Options, and finally put a check mark in the Use Toggle Keys box. Now Windows will let you know with little beeps when you turn on or off the Caps Lock key. The same feature works for the Num Lock key and the Scroll Lock key.