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re: Cannot get NumLock to be off
Tuesday, October 15, 2002 at 10:57 pm
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Posted by YoKenny (1 messages posted)


My IBM Thinkpad powers up with NumLock on. I have a wireless keyboard that requires that it be off. Grr.. Can not set it off in BIOS nor winME bootup. Grrr..


On Monday, September 9, 2002 at 6:27 pm, Caroline wrote:
>Thanks to everyone who suggested fixes - sadly, not a single one worked - not the
>registry, not config.sys, not the BIOS - I looked again and have absolutely nothing
>about NUMLOCK anywhere. The utilities were all interesting but they all did a lot
>more than I actually wanted to do. I finally mailed HP tech support and this is
>what they said, take it or leave it:
>
>"Thank you for contacting the new HP.
>I understand that you wish to boot your Pavilion XG834 with Numlock off.
>When you boot your Pavilion PC, the Numlock feature gets ON by default.
>there is no such option to get it OFF when you boot your Pavilion PC."
>
>Isn't it nice to know that my machine is such an improvement over every preceding
>PC ever made. Sigh.
>
>


Written in response to:
re: Cannot get NumLock to be off (Caroline: Monday, September 9, 2002 at 6:27 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Cannot get NumLock to be off (Tony Laing: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 at 4:03 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Cannot get NumLock to be off (Caroline: Tue, Sep 3, 2002, 8:03 am)
-re: NUMLOCK=OFF NUMLOCK NumLock Num Lock Numlock numlock (Mac: Tue, Sep 3, 2002, 1:52 pm)
*re: NUMLOCK=OFF NUMLOCK NumLock Num Lock Numlock numlock (Caroline: Tue, Sep 3, 2002, 6:42 pm)
-re: Cannot get NumLock to be off (Ron: Tue, Sep 3, 2002, 8:33 pm)
*re: Cannot get NumLock to be off (Caroline: Wed, Sep 4, 2002, 2:23 pm)
-re: Cannot get NumLock to be off (Caroline: Wed, Sep 4, 2002, 6:37 pm)
*re: Cannot get NumLock to be off (Ron: Wed, Sep 4, 2002, 9:04 pm)
*re: Cannot get NumLock to be off (John S. Boesen: Wed, Sep 4, 2002, 8:57 pm)
-re: Cannot get NumLock to be off (Paul: Fri, Sep 6, 2002, 7:51 pm)
-re: Cannot get NumLock to be off (Caroline: Mon, Sep 9, 2002, 6:27 pm)
-re: Cannot get NumLock to be off (YoKenny: Tue, Oct 15, 2002, 10:57 pm)
*re: Cannot get NumLock to be off (Tony Laing: Wed, Nov 27, 2002, 4:03 pm)
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