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re: Comment about 'Force NumLock to Behave'
Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 7:13 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by nozero
(6 messages posted)
I was referring specifically to this section:
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"Solution #3 (Windows 2000/XP only):
Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE).
Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard (If the Keyboard key isn't there, add
it.)
Double-click the InitialKeyboardIndicators value on the right. (If it's not there,
select New from the Edit menu, then String Value, and type InitialKeyboardIndicators
for the name of the new value.)
Change the value to any of the following:
0 - all indicators off
1 - Caps Lock on
2 - Num Lock on
4 - Scroll Lock on
Or, combine them by adding the corresponding values:
3 - Caps Lock and Num Lock on
5 - Caps Lock and Scroll Lock on
6 - Num Lock and Scroll Lock on
7 - Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock on
Close the Registry Editor when you're done; the change should take effect the next
time you start Windows."
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I am attempting to get the Caps Lock to be on when Windows is started. I tried this
on a total of three PCs. One of which was Win 2K, the other two were XP Pro. The
registries of all three PCs already had that key, so all I had to do was change that
value.
I've found that no matter what I enter as the value in the registry, the only thing
that is "saved" is the current state of that key when restarting. In other words,
if the Num Lock is on when I restart, the key value will be "2" when checked after
a restart or if the Num lock is off when I restart, the key value will be "0" when
checked.
I find your response to be somewhat vague at best. Please enlighten me as to how
this is "done properly", and what I could be doing incorrectly?
On Friday, September 5, 2003 at 8:27 pm, Tom Swanson wrote:
>The post is generally universal on what it fixes. The special posts for XP work
if
>they are done properly.
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