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re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave'
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 at 4:55 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by smikwily
(1 messages posted)
Unsure if you are using an external keyboard or docking station, but the IBM laptops
remember the NumLock status if you have a keyboard plugged in with NumLock enabled
via the keyboard. Some of our users don't turn on NumLock at all, for fear that they
will forget to disable it when they have to use the laptop keyboard.
When we received our first batch of laptops, we were fine until our laptop users
went to travel. Since their first keyboard function was to put their password in,
which is only visible as a group of asterix, they couldn't see that their letters
entered on the right hand side of their keyboard were numbers. After we found the
problem, I had them check by typing their password on the username line to verify
it was off.
On Sunday, February 29, 2004 at 10:54 am, out-there wrote:
>I'm also having this problem as well. I have a thinkpad t20 and for some reason,
>out of nowhere, this started happening.
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>The thinkpad keyboard doesn't have a numpad section.. it's part of the regular keys.
>When I press "m", I get "0", "p" I get "*". I've tried everything I could possibly
>find out about this.
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>"InitialKeyboardIndicators" being changed from "2" to "0" doesn't work because it
>always goes back to "2" after rebooting. Adding a key to another section as suggested
>from another site didn't work either. My bios doesn't have anything that helps this
>either. How is this notepad just decided to turn its numpad on and stay like that?
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