re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave'
Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 8:16 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Fan of Jay McMunn
(1 messages posted)
Well Done Jay- that works very well.
on Asus L1400 Laptop Win XP.
BTW: The regedit setting was 0 on the machine and changing it to 2 meant the machine
would not boot, (and "2"made no sense!)
On Friday, December 23, 2005 at 6:45 pm, Jay McMunn wrote:
>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!
>
>
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