See a notification whenever you switch caps (Windows 7, 8, 8.1)

Some keyboards have small light indicators for the Caps Lock key. If you don’t have one of these keyboards and tend to use that key a lot (to type your passwords in upper and lower case, for example), then you should install the free tool Keyboard Indicator. This displays a small icon on your Taskbar that tells you whether your Caps Lock is on or off.

First of all download it, go to and click the ‘Download Keyboard Indicator v1.6.0.1’ link. Next, click the downloaded zipped file, open the folder inside, click the ‘KeyboardIndicator. exe’ setup file, then click Run. You’ll now see a small blue or pink ‘A’ icon in your Taskbar.  If the icon is blue it means that Caps Lock is off.

A pink icon denotes it’s on. Whenever you press the Caps Lock key, you’ll see a notification at the bottom right of your PC (see screenshot above) and the icon will change colour accordingly.