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Auto Caps Unlock (CAPS.EXE and CAPSHOOK.DLL) is a program which changes the behaviour of the Caps Lock Key on your keyboard. For some inexplicable reason, the PC was designed so that if the Caps Lock key is on then pressing the shift key produces a lower case letter, but leaves the Caps Lock on. This produces unpleasant results like:

hELLO, MY NAME IS tREVOR. wHY DOESN'T MY pc WORK RIGHT?

Caps modifies the keyboard so that if the Caps Lock key is on and you press the shift key and a letter, the letter appears in upper case, but the Caps Lock is turned off. This is similar to a manual typewriter (but slightly better, because you can still get at shifted symbols without switching Caps Lock off), and is a whole lot more user friendly.

To install it, just copy CAPS.EXE and CAPSHOOK.DLL to your hard drive. You should copy them both into the same directory. When you run CAPS it appears as an icon. If you run it with an H parameter (eg C:\UTILS\CAPS.EXE H) it will start up hidden. The best way to run it is to put it in your Startup group.

It will change the keyboard behaviour for all Windows programs. Unfortunately, it has no effect on DOS boxes, but I am told that there are TSRs around which produce the same effect on them.

CAPS.EXE and CAPSHOOK.DLL use no undocumented calls. If they mess up any other application then it is almost certainly because the other app does something naughty. I, and several others, have been using it for some time with no problems whatsoever, and I don't believe it can cause any trouble (although I would like to hear about it if it does).

Babbacombe Computers Ltd retain copyright on CAPS.EXE and CAPSHOOK.DLL. They are freeware programs and can be freely distributed, provided no charge is made for them other than reasonable distribution charges, and the distribution includes unchanged copies of CAPS.EXE, CAPSHOOK.DLL and this file.

For any further information about this and other Windows utilities by the same author contact
Babbacombe Computers Ltd
397 Meanwood Road
Leeds
LS7 2LL
UK

or use any of these email addresses
share@babbacom.demon.co.uk
tprinn@cix.compulink.co.uk
100016,2726 on Compuserve