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re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave'
Friday, December 23, 2005 at 6:45 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jay McMunn
(1 messages posted)
Ok, I will combine ALL of the posts here into one successful solution. I tried several
of the above posts and had moderate success on different occasions. But recently
I joined a different domain than usual on my laptop and this NumLock problem cropped
up again...and now I have the solution.
First the reason: I beleive one of the previous posts is correct, this is due to
a domain policy usually. But, I am not the admin so I can't change that policy for
my user. I do not usually log into this domain, so once I disconnected from the
domain and did the steps below, I was able to resume normal NumLock behavior.
1. - Log on to Windows with your normal user. Turn off numlock, and use Ctrl-Alt-Del
and LOGOFF, NOT Shutdown.
2. - Notice now that you are back to the login window and NumLock is ON again. Turn
it off and then hit Ctrl-Alt-Del again and choose Restart.
By turning it off in both of these locations and in this order, you can be assured
that it shouldn't be on anymore. Doing it in any other order left me with Numlock
on in just about any combination of the steps above in previous posts.
That said, if you have to log into this domain all the time you will still likely
have to deal with this NumLock policy even when not connected to a docking station.
My suggestion at that point is to learn a little C# or VB.Net programming. You
can easily write a service that starts up at the Windows login screen and turns off
NumLock for you, and then have it run at startup again once windows starts. This
service can turn NumLock off for you. For the non-programmers out there, it may
not be worth the time to learn, but it'll only take 10 minutes of research to figure
out how for the programmers.
If you ask me, the domain policy really has no business forcing NumLock ON. That's
why the BIOS and Windows have the settings that they do...so the USER can choose!
On Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at 8:47 am, Steve wrote:
>Having this problem on a Dell c600 laptop...
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>Noticed this:
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>After logging on as the local admin = Numlock off, everything's cool.
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>After logging on as domain user/admin = Numlock on, u=4,i=5, etc. DOH!
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>Logged in as local admin, went to user profiles (control panel, system), copied
local
>admin profile to one of the user profiles..
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>Restart...
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>Works! Numlock stays off. (Did this in Win2k, but cant imagine WinXP is much different.
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