XPG laptop: how to turn off the annoying ‘lock unlock’ screen indicator.

My macbook harddrive appears to be pooched, so I’m using my personal Windows laptop for work until I can get it fixed.  There’s been an annoying feature of this laptop that I hadn’t figured out, but after trying to use it all day, it was well past time.  In particular, if I hit Caps-Lock, I get the following screen indicator: close to the top left corner of the screen, which often obscures what…