I have a question about Force NumLock to Behave:

I have read all the steps and to no evail, Numeric lock is off at log on time every time. Is there a boot.ini hack I can do?

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Have you gone into your BIOS and found the numlock setting? Most modern BIOSs will have this somewhere in the menus. Mine is under Advanced Chipset. Good Luck.


On Friday, January 18, 2002 at 1:40 pm, SClancy wrote:
>I have a question about Force
>NumLock to Behave:

>
>I have read all the steps and to no evail, Numeric lock is off at log on time every
>time. Is there a boot.ini hack I can do?
>
>

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On Friday, January 18, 2002 at 1:40 pm, SClancy wrote:
>I have a question about Force 
>NumLock to Behave:

>
>I have read all the steps and to no evail, Numeric lock is off at log on time every 
>time. Is there a boot.ini hack I can do?
>
>

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Sorry forgot to hit paste in the last message! Hope this helps...

Enabling the NumLock Key 
 
By default, Windows 2000 doesn't enable the NumLock key when a user initially logs 
on to a Windows 2000-based system--and even if the user turns on NumLock, Windows 
2000 turns it off again whenever the user logs off. You can make the NumLock key 
stay on by changing the Registry. Note: You need to either log on as the user or 
have the user log on and edit their Registry remotely. To turn on the NumLock key, 
set the following Registry value to 2:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators

By default, Windows 2000 sets the InitialKeyboardIndicators value to 0 (which turns 
the NumLock key off).

You can turn on the NumLock key in the default profile so that every new user who 
log in to a computer has NumLock enabled by setting the following Registry value 
to 2:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators
 







On Sunday, June 30, 2002 at 10:17 pm, Shawn Carroll wrote:
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Check this out, from microsoft website:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314879

Instructions work for 2k also, I've tested. If link should die, heres what you do:

Open notepad and copy/paste:

set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.SendKeys "{NUMLOCK}"

Then save file as "numlock.vbs" (in quotes to ensure that notepad doesnt automatically name it numlock.vbs.txt)

Then copy and paste the file (OR a shortcut to the file) numlock.vbs into C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start menu\Programs\Startup

This causes numlock to become enabled AFTER login (which is the only drawback, if you needed it on BEFORE the login window, for password purposes)

Hope this helped!


On Friday, January 18, 2002 at 1:40 pm, SClancy wrote:
>I have a question about Force
>NumLock to Behave:

>
>I have read all the steps and to no evail, Numeric lock is off at log on time every
>time. Is there a boot.ini hack I can do?
>
>

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Thanx everbody it's been a pleasure problem solved. Scott


On Sunday, June 30, 2002 at 10:19 pm, Shawn Carroll wrote:
>
>Sorry forgot to hit paste in the last message! Hope this helps...
>
>Enabling the NumLock Key
>
>By default, Windows 2000 doesn't enable the NumLock key when a user initially logs
>on to a Windows 2000-based system--and even if the user turns on NumLock, Windows
>2000 turns it off again whenever the user logs off. You can make the NumLock key
>stay on by changing the Registry. Note: You need to either log on as the user or
>have the user log on and edit their Registry remotely. To turn on the NumLock key,
>set the following Registry value to 2:
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators
>
>By default, Windows 2000 sets the InitialKeyboardIndicators value to 0 (which turns
>the NumLock key off).
>
>You can turn on the NumLock key in the default profile so that every new user who
>log in to a computer has NumLock enabled by setting the following Registry value
>to 2:
>
>HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators
>
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