Although I am a satisfied user of Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, I bought a Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000 few months back because I was looking for a keyboard that is shorter in width because I don’t have broad shoulders. The Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000 is quite small in size because the number pad is separated. Since I don’t use the number pad a lot, disconnecting it saves a lot of space and allowing me to put the mouse nearer to the keyboard so that I can easily reach the mouse without stretching to the far right.
Using a new keyboard takes a bit of time to get used to it because the layout is a bit different plus some of the keys such as PrintScreen, Insert, Home and End are at a different place which requires the function key (Fn) to activate them. After using it for a few days, I just don’t feel comfortable using the Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000 even though it comes with a Comfort Curve keyboard design that encourages natural posture. I gave it a friend and on the same day he called me up saying that the keyboard doesn’t have caps lock, num lock and scroll lock indicator light which can be annoying when he finished typing a sentence and then only noticed that everything is in capital letters. Thankfully there are free software that can allow you to see the current state of keyboard locks on the screen.
Keyboard LEDs is a freeware that displays the status of keyboard locks through a small icon in the system tray or on the floating window over your screen. The floating window can be moved by pressing and holding the left click on your mouse.
The Keyboard LEDs settings window allows you to customize how you want it to look. It is also possible to change the keyboard status of NumLock, CapsLock and ScrollLock through the settings Window itself. Keyboard LEDs takes up only 768K of memory usage and works on Windows XP/Vista/7 both 32-bit and 64-bit.
