Key LED Flash

Most keyboards are fitted with small LED lights for several functions, such as Caps, Num, and Scroll lock in order to display the status of these functions. There’s a file inside Windows which has direct control over them, and Key LED Flash is the type of application to use in order to take control, mostly for some fun.

You can go ahead and see what the application can do for you from the moment download is done, because it’s not packed inside an installer. This means you can store it on a thumb drive in case you want to use it on other computers, without putting stability at risk, because it doesn’t modify registry entries to enable functionality.

The application offers a couple of operation modes, namely game and effects. You start off in the latter one, where you get acquainted with a set of controls which take over the keyboard LED lights. The interface displays the dedicated buttons with their own LED lights, but you can also view them on your keyboard.

While in effects mode, you have the possibility to control the light toggle speed of each button, as well as the overall speed. This allows you to create custom effects, but stopping the show resets everything to default values. There are also various presets you can try out, but you can’t save your own.

The game mode mostly challenges your memory. Using these three functions, you need to follow a pattern delivered by the computer, which gradually increases in difficulty. Note that the application doesn’t just turn on lights, but also affects the toggle state of functions, so character casing might be affected if an effect is left on while writing some text strings.

All things considered, we can state that Key LED Flash delivers an environment is mostly intended for a fun way to pass the time. It contains custom light shows and a game mode, and even though it doesn’t really come with much degree of practicality, it might just scare the boredom away, at least for a while.