I run XP Home with few hotfixes installed. My caplock and numlock both behave as 
directed  (after a lot of fussing around). You may have many many things that cause 
an interaction with your register that I don't have. In any event the instructions 
work in some cases. I have tried register fixes for many problems. Some work for 
me, some work for others and not for me.

My point is that this fix does work in a number of cases and shouldn't be removed. 
If a recent upgrade negates it, that should be noted. The second point is that this 
is a subject to discuss with Annoyances.org Webmaster and administration. They don't 
scan posts daily for complaints - talk to them, they may clarify it or remove if 
it's passed out of usefullness.






On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 7:13 am, nozero wrote:
>I was referring specifically to this section:
>----
>"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."
>----
>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?
>
>
>

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