How to Turn Toggle Key Sounds on or off in Windows 10

By Timothy Tibbetts

on 04/18/2023

If you accidentally hit the Caps Lock, Num Lock, or Scroll Lock, Windows 10 has an option to play a tone anytime you touch one of those three keys. Here's how.

Turn Toggle Key Sounds on or off in Settings

Click on Start > Settings > Ease of Access. Click on Keyboard in the right window.

Under Use Toggle Keys, you should see Play a sound whenever you press Caps Lock, Num Lock, or Scroll Lock.

Click on or off.

You might have also noticed the option to hold the Num Lock key for 5 seconds to turn Toggle Keys on. (It didn't work for us).

Turn Toggle Key Sounds on or off Using the Registry or Registry Files

Turn Toggle Key Sounds on or off in Windows 10 can enable or disable a tone that plays if you accidentally hit the Caps Lock, Num Lock, or Scroll Lock.

Two registry files are included:

Turn Toggle Key Sounds ON.reg
Turn Toggle Key Sounds OFF.reg

Double-click and click on Run, Yes, for the UAC prompt, and Yes, one more time to confirm Registry changes.

Advanced users can modify HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\ToggleKeys

Double-click on Flags and use one of the following two numbers:

58 - Off
59 - On

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