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Annoying NUMLOCK & CAPSLOCK behavior.

dokmh
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Annoying NUMLOCK & CAPSLOCK behavior.

I've had my Vaio since just before April.
I installed Microsoft Flight Sim X on it the day after my birthday at the begining of April.
I noticed something odd that didn't happen on my desktop.
Whenever I press NUMLOCK to change the number pad controls the game screen goes blank for a second then comes back up.

I've tried everything to stop this and have just realised that it also happens when I press CAPSLOCK. The only suggestion I have is that it is the little tiny box that pops up whenever one of these 2 keys is pressed to show whether they are turned on or off.

Does anyone know how to turn this status display box off?

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dokmh
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Problem solved.

Would you believe that despite the fact I've hunted round for a solution before tonight, I eventually find one the night I post this problem!!

It appears that I wasn't the only person having problems like this, quite a few others are as well, and not just in Flight Sim X either! Loads of other games are the similar.

Here's the solution I found, just incase anyone else needs it int he future.

The pop up is caused by a process called bttray.exe. (It's part of the Bluetooth support)

The solution is to edit this value in the registry:
(type regedit in your search window in vista - double click program - warning you can really mess up your system by playing around with REGEDIT)
click these fields

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE
Widcomm
BTConfig
General
KeyIndication

(right click on KeyIndication and Change it from 1 to 0.

Reboot


Tada... Problem solved, no more popups! :grin: