Number Lock

[Andy]

I have a one year old PC with XP Home Edition. When it
boots up, the Number lock is off. How can I set it so
the Number Lock is on after booting up?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

**Please note this needs a manual edit of the Registry. Please backup the Registry before editing it**

Open the Registry editor and navigate to:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard - in the right hand pane double click on 'InitialKeyboardIndicators' and change the value to 2.

You will need to restart Windows.

Will

 

[Chris Lanier]

Check your BIOS for a setting ans try this -
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_n.htm (End of the page)

 

[Willit]

System BIOS is the easiest . On boot whatever your system
requires (del) or (f1) usually.

MS's answer, If you are registry savvy.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;315468

 

[purplehaz]

http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=460
NumLock does not toggle on by default (system-wide), even if you have it set
in your PC's BIOS, because of XP's multi-user functionality. Guess Microsoft
doesn't know everyone actually turns it on, which should be reason enough
for what acts as "default"...

Anyway, you can hack the Windows Registry to change this behavior, or run a
script at logon to turn NumLock on.

1. To enable NumLock through the Registry:

* Open Windows' Registry Editor (START > RUN, type "REGEDIT").
*. Navigate to HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Keyboard.
*. Change the value for InitialKeyboardIndicators from 0 to 2.

2. To enable NumLock using a script, see this MS Knowledgebase article for
complete instructions:

http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q262625