{"id":1867,"date":"2024-01-14T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T04:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2024-01-14T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T04:30:29","slug":"caret-browsing-keeps-popping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/caret-browsing-keeps-popping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Caret Browsing Keeps Popping Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not sure which Windows updates was it that causes my Windows to keep popping up this message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Turn on Caret Browsing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This add a cursor on Text so you can select text with your keyboard.  F7 turns caret browsing on or off.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do not ask me again when I press F7.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is very irritating as it impact my Browser and Microsoft Excel, Words and Powerpoint.  It will keep popping up after awhile even though I have press F7 as per the message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/turn_on_caret_browsing-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/turn_on_caret_browsing-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/turn_on_caret_browsing-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/turn_on_caret_browsing-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/turn_on_caret_browsing-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/turn_on_caret_browsing.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manage to find a way to stop this nonsense error message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go to <strong>Microsoft Office Apps store<\/strong> and install <strong>Microsoft PowerToys<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After installation, go to <strong>Microsoft PowerToys<\/strong> under <strong>Keyboard Manager<\/strong> and <strong>Remap F7 to Disable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The caret browsing keeps popping up message is now gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/keyboard-manager-f7-disable-1024x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/keyboard-manager-f7-disable-1024x533.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/keyboard-manager-f7-disable-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/keyboard-manager-f7-disable-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/keyboard-manager-f7-disable.jpg 1356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure which Windows updates was it that causes my Windows to keep popping up this message: Turn on Caret Browsing? This add a cursor on Text so you can select text with your keyboard. F7 turns caret browsing on or off. Do not ask me again when I press F7. It is very irritating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browser","category-software","category-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotothings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}