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    Having an odd problem.

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by dekar72, Sep 9, 2007.

  1. dekar72

    dekar72 Newbie

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    I currently have an Acer Aspire 5670.

    Recently, anytime that I am playing a game, when I hit my Caps Lock button, it minimizes my game (I use the Caps to talk in game). When I hit it, the game minimizes and I get the "Cap Lock: On/Off" message. I think that may be what is causing the minimize. I've been using this notebook for a little over a year and have never had this problem before. Anyone have any idea what going on?
     
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    Crimsonman Ex NBR member :cry:

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    maybe just type while holding shift
     
    Crimsonman, Sep 9, 2007
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    baia Notebook Consultant

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    Maybe you should try to disable the message that says you have caps lock on/off. You don't need that message, cause you have the indicator on your laptop. But don't know which software does that. Porbably some acer program cause when I first used my laptop (and all the acer programs were still installed), I had those messages too (even when I was scrolling the volume-wheel) So try to find which acer program is doing this and look at it's settings or uninstall it if you don't need it.
     
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    dekar72 Newbie

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    I've looked through all of the Acer programs that are still on my computer and I can't find an option to turn it off. It's always been there but it has never caused a problem until now.

    And as for just typing with shift, I use the Caps Lock button for voice chat.

    Edit: I just now got it to stop. I looked around and saw somewhere else that someone solved it after ending a Bluetooth process in the task manager. I stopped the task BTTray.exe and the indicator went away.
     
    dekar72, Sep 9, 2007
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