How do I disable a Windows 7 smart typing feature


  1. dathyr1
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    How do I disable a Windows 7 smart typing feature


    Seems Windows 7 when I type in file names and it sometimes locks the first letter of a word to lower case and no matter what I do I cannot force it to change from lower case to upper case again. How do I disable this feature or can I?

    example file name

    Barneys Night out on the town.avi

    "town" is lower case and I want it to be upper case and windows 7 prevents me to change it back.

    I looked in some of the help files and cant find the right topic on this.

    thank you for any help, :)

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  3. Brink
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    Hello Dathry1, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    This is because file name text is not case sensitive in Windows 7, so Windows 7 sees town.avi and Town.avi as being the same name capitalized or not. This is why it does not change when you rename it with the same letter.

    As a workaround, rename the file to say town1.avi, then rename it again to Town.avi to have it capitalized.

    Hope this helps,
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  4. dathyr1
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    Shawn,

    Thank you for the information. Didn't think about doing that.

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  6. Brink
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    You're most welcome. :)
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