Numlock on at Boot - wont switch off.

[Guest]

Hi, I have recently upgraded several Samsung V20 laptops to XP SP2. This is
working fine except at initial startup when the user is prompted to press
CTRL ALT DEL to log in, the num lock is staying permanently on. I have went
through the BIOS and ensured this is set to OFF, however it still stays on!!
I have searched the Samsung website for updated BIOS but nothing available.

Is it possible to curb this through a setting in Windows itself??

Any advice appreciated as the staff are getting restless even though its not
exactly a hardship to press the Num Lock key before logging in !!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Set InitialKeyboardIndicators to 0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154529/EN-US/

 

[Don Schmidt]

This is from my 98 days. It may work.


Found this along the way:

Start
Run
REGEDIT

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Control Panel
Keyboard
Right click on Keyboard, select New String Value
Enter NumLock enter to save,
Double Left click on NumLock and enter ON
save with OK
Reboot and you're done.

This works for me.

 

[Joan Archer]

I think you'll find that if the user shuts down with the num lock on then
it will be on when booting, try shutting down with it off and see if that
works.
Joan

 

[Don Schmidt]

I meant to change the word "on" to "off" (sans quotes)

 

[Don Schmidt]

Another choice.

Go into the BIOS (usually it's the DEL key during bootup) and you can turn
the Number Lock off.

 

[Steve N.]

Another choice.

Go into the BIOS (usually it's the DEL key during bootup) and you can turn
the Number Lock off.

Please re-read the OP, that's already been tried.

Steve

 

[Steve N.]

I think you'll find that if the user shuts down with the num lock on then
it will be on when booting, try shutting down with it off and see if that
works.
Joan

This is true except that the preserved Num Lock status is not set until
the user logs in and the OP is having the problem before login.

Steve

 

[Guest]

Thankyou everyone for your replies.

The fix is as follows, courtesy of Ramesh:

Open Regedit
HKEY_USERS\.Default\ Control Panel\Keyboard
Edit value for InitialKeyboardIndicators to 0 (set it to 2 if you WANT
Numlock to be on before login)

 

[Steve N.]

Thankyou everyone for your replies.

The fix is as follows, courtesy of Ramesh:

Open Regedit
HKEY_USERS\.Default\ Control Panel\Keyboard
Edit value for InitialKeyboardIndicators to 0 (set it to 2 if you WANT
Numlock to be on before login)

Excellent. Thanks to Ramesh and to you for the followup post.

Steve

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Thank you! Steve.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Thanks for posting back, M_Hood.