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re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' Monday, October 22, 2001 at 4:29 pm Posted by Dave357 (101 messages posted) Sorry, but NumLock is a setting in BIOS, not in Windows, so a .bat file won't fix it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' Monday, October 22, 2001 at 10:38 pm Posted by amaralliya e. thenardier (3194 messages posted) well, it can be done with config.sys (numlock=on/off) but that won't be on a per-user basis. interestingly enough, this can be done with a simple registry edit in nt/2000. currently searching for a utility (you could do the same if you're so inclined ;). [Reply or follow-up to this message] found a utility... Monday, October 22, 2001 at 11:03 pm Posted by amaralliya e. thenardier (3194 messages posted) should do: lock numlock. edit the ini per someone's liking, then place a shortcut to the executable in the startup folder of that user. [Reply or follow-up to this message] forgot to mention... Monday, October 22, 2001 at 11:14 pm Posted by amaralliya e. thenardier (3194 messages posted) change the bios setting to be the opposite of the program's setting. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: found a utility... Tuesday, October 23, 2001 at 7:09 am Posted by Roger (2 messages posted) Excellent - if it works as per the Readme, it's exactly what I was looking for. I'll post back when I try it at home. I did a Google search but this didn't come up. BTW, there is a utility on the MS website (.vbs) that's a simple toggle. It's close to what I needed, but I'm hoping the one you provided is right on. RY On Monday, October 22, 2001 at 11:03 pm, amaralliya e. thenardier wrote: >should do: lock numlock. > >edit the ini per someone's liking, then place a shortcut to the executable in the >startup folder of that user. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' Saturday, October 27, 2001 at 1:09 pm Posted by Aaron (5 messages posted) Roger, If you want to turn Numlock off when your wife uses the system I would recommend doing the following. 1. Open notepad and type the following into a new doc. set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.SendKeys "{NUMLOCK}" 2. Save this file as NUMLOCK.VBS 3. Copy this file into the startup group for your wife's profile so it gets executed ONLY when she logs on. 4. Verify the BIOS is set to turn the Numlock on when booting. Now, when the computer is booted up Numlock will be on and you can log in with it on. If you wife logs onto the computer the NUMLOCK.VBS file will be executed which will toggle the state of the numlock key therefore turning it off. Problem solved and both of you are happy. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' Monday, November 19, 2001 at 12:24 am Posted by Zoltan (2 messages posted) If you have two user profiles, you can alter a setting in the registry, unique for you and your wife. Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control panel/Keyboard you should have a string value called "InitialKeyboardIndicators". If not, create it. Then, to set the Num Lock to On, edit the value, and set it to "2". This will do the trick. If yuor wife logs in, and her NumLock happens to be on, just edit the data while she's logged in, and set it to "0". These setting will never collide, and mess it up for eachother. Cheers /z On Monday, October 22, 2001 at 11:42 am, Roger wrote: >I have a question about Force >NumLock to Behave: > >Is there a way to have NumLock status change on a per user basis? My wife and I >have different profiles on a Win98SE machine, and I use NumLock 100% of the time, >and she uses it 0%. Is there a utility, batch file, or magic spell to get Numlock >to go to a certain state, either on or off? I could then drop it in Startup in each >of our profiles and be done with it. > >TIA >Roger [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 7:21 pm Posted by RAINMAN (1 messages posted) YOUR WRONG EINSTEIN... IT CAN BE SET IN OTHERWAYS THAN BIOS.......DUMBASS On Monday, October 22, 2001 at 4:29 pm, Dave357 wrote: >Sorry, but NumLock is a setting in BIOS, not in Windows, so a .bat file won't fix >it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' Thursday, September 11, 2003 at 5:00 am Posted by TKO (1 messages posted) create a *.vbs file and edit it and put in the following XP only set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.SendKeys "{NUMLOCK}" On Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 7:21 pm, RAINMAN wrote: > > >YOUR WRONG EINSTEIN... IT CAN BE SET IN OTHERWAYS THAN BIOS.......DUMBASS > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum