If your BIOS Setup does not include an option to turn off the NumLock key upon (re)boot, 
you can do so by altering your Windows 95/98/ME Registry.

To have your NumLock key turned ON or OFF on startup, open Regedit and:
go to (valid only for the current user):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Microsoft Input Devices

or to (valid for all users):

HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Microsoft Input Devices

Double-click on "Microsoft Input Devices" -> click New -> select Key -> name this 
new key "Keyboard" (no quotes) -> highlight "Keyboard" -> right-click on it -> click 
New -> select String Value -> type in NumLock -> click OK -> right-click on NumLock 
-> click Modify - > type ON to turn the NumLock key on or OFF to turn it off (case 
insensitive) -> click OK.

Note: This Registry modification works mostly with PS/2 and USB keyboards built by 
Microsoft, with MS IntelliType software installed, but may or may not work with other, 
3rd party, keyboards.

You can turn on/off the Caps Lock and/or Scroll Lock keys in a similar manner.

Add 2 new String Values under the same Registry subkey above and name them "CapsLock" 
and "ScrollLock" respectively (no quotes). Then double-click on each of them and 
type either ON or OFF.

Now close Regedit and then press F5, after left-clicking your mouse once into an 
empty Desktop area, so the changes can take effect without restarting Windows.

If you are using a CONFIG.SYS file (located in C:\ root) to boot up, you can also 
turn your NumLock key OFF by adding this line to your CONFIG.SYS (edit it with Notepad/Sysedit 
in Windows or EDIT.COM in DOS):

NUMLOCK=OFF

This CONFIG.SYS line turns NumLock back ON:

NUMLOCK=ON

Save your file and reboot.
Both these commands work with ANY keyboard and are case insensitive.

FYI: Open CONFIG.TXT (located in your Windows 9x/ME folder) using Notepad to read 
the details about all available CONFIG.SYS commands.

Iain

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