ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I have a new Lenovo laptop which is better in every respect than the old Dell that I am using to type this post. Other than in one area that is - the keyboard.
The Dell has a fantastic keyboard with proper keys. The Lenovo has a disappointing rubbery keyboard which doesn't give me enough feedback when typing so I make lots of mistakes. I am not a touch typist but can type quite quickly by looking at the keyboard as I type. Using the Lenovo, some keystrokes do not register and I don't realise that until I look up at the screen. Then I have to go back and correct multiple errors. It is a pain which has put me off switching over to the new computer.
What I would like is to hear some audio feedback whenever I press a key. The kind of thing you can enable for touch screen keyboards. The computer is running Windows 10 and I can't find an option to enable keyboard sounds, other than one for the Caps Lock key, which is very handy because I was often hitting that by mistake and not noticing its light come on.
The spacebar is particularly troublesome. If I press it anywhere other then the middle 50% of it then more often than notthespacesdonotregisterandIendup withsomethinglike this!
In an ideal world I would be able to assign different sounds to different keys so I can tell what I have pressed without looking. The Shift keys are a bit small and the Del key is in an odd position next to the power switch so I often make mistakes with them too.
Any kind of audio feedback would be good. Programmable audio feedback would be great. Ideally without having to install extra software.
I wasn't able to find anything when I searched for solutions earlier this evening. Maybe one of you will have a solution. (PS "Buy a different computer" is NOT the solution that I am looking for! )
The Dell has a fantastic keyboard with proper keys. The Lenovo has a disappointing rubbery keyboard which doesn't give me enough feedback when typing so I make lots of mistakes. I am not a touch typist but can type quite quickly by looking at the keyboard as I type. Using the Lenovo, some keystrokes do not register and I don't realise that until I look up at the screen. Then I have to go back and correct multiple errors. It is a pain which has put me off switching over to the new computer.
What I would like is to hear some audio feedback whenever I press a key. The kind of thing you can enable for touch screen keyboards. The computer is running Windows 10 and I can't find an option to enable keyboard sounds, other than one for the Caps Lock key, which is very handy because I was often hitting that by mistake and not noticing its light come on.
The spacebar is particularly troublesome. If I press it anywhere other then the middle 50% of it then more often than notthespacesdonotregisterandIendup withsomethinglike this!
In an ideal world I would be able to assign different sounds to different keys so I can tell what I have pressed without looking. The Shift keys are a bit small and the Del key is in an odd position next to the power switch so I often make mistakes with them too.
Any kind of audio feedback would be good. Programmable audio feedback would be great. Ideally without having to install extra software.
I wasn't able to find anything when I searched for solutions earlier this evening. Maybe one of you will have a solution. (PS "Buy a different computer" is NOT the solution that I am looking for! )