re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 9:25 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Brian Kunick (1 messages posted) Just a note to confirm this worked on the IBM T40 On Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at 9:15 am, Mark Randol wrote: >If you're talking about it switching the NUMLOCK on at the logon prompt, try this. > Toggle the NUMLOCK lamp off using the NUMLOCK key. Restart. Next time the machine >comes to the logon prompt it's got the NUMLOCK off. > >My WinXP-Pro machine started turning the NUMLOCK on at boot (and when shutting down >- the clue!) after desktop support installed an application that required a LONG >registration number be punched in. I suspect they used the NUMLOCK on that priveledged >account, the same that's used at the logon prompt?! Changing the NUMLOCK at the >prompt and restarting reset it. > >At least, that's my theory. I'm no big Windoze whiz. Just a determined button pusher >:) Written in response to: re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Mark Randol: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at 9:15 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Pete: Sun, Jul 13, 2003, 6:24 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (François: Wed, Sep 17, 2003, 1:03 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Pete: Wed, Sep 17, 2003, 4:24 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Matt M: Mon, Nov 17, 2003, 8:47 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Pete: Mon, Nov 17, 2003, 5:22 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Carter: Thu, Jan 29, 2004, 7:36 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (out-there: Sun, Feb 29, 2004, 10:54 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Carter: Sun, Feb 29, 2004, 1:54 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (out-there: Sun, Feb 29, 2004, 8:28 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Dan: Tue, Apr 6, 2004, 10:23 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Kirk: Mon, May 3, 2004, 11:21 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Thomas Gregory: Sun, May 9, 2004, 11:23 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Brad: Tue, May 11, 2004, 9:24 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (uidiot: Tue, May 25, 2004, 9:01 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Randy: Wed, Aug 11, 2004, 8:29 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Mark Randol: Wed, Nov 17, 2004, 9:15 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Brian Kunick: Thu, Sep 10, 2009, 9:25 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Keith: Sun, Aug 22, 2004, 8:47 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Franc: Tue, Nov 30, 2004, 7:00 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Rob: Wed, Jan 26, 2005, 9:58 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (smikwily: Wed, Feb 9, 2005, 4:55 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Mark Randol: Wed, Feb 9, 2005, 7:56 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Perry C: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 5:21 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Mario: Thu, Apr 7, 2005, 9:44 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Sanjeev Hasiza: Wed, Jul 20, 2005, 10:37 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (e: Fri, Jan 6, 2006, 4:26 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Charlotte Irishman: Sun, Jun 18, 2006, 3:33 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Frank Polack: Fri, Aug 11, 2006, 6:57 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Cin: Fri, May 27, 2005, 1:06 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Rich Kurtz: Wed, Jul 20, 2005, 12:01 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Falcon: Wed, Jul 20, 2005, 12:13 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Shailesh: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 11:58 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Anthony: Sun, Sep 4, 2005, 5:39 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Steve: Wed, Sep 28, 2005, 8:47 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Jay McMunn: Fri, Dec 23, 2005, 6:45 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Fan of Jay McMunn: Tue, Dec 27, 2005, 8:16 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Tom: Thu, Dec 29, 2005, 6:01 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (irina kotcheva: Sun, Jul 2, 2006, 2:08 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Harold Austin: Tue, Oct 17, 2006, 6:05 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (JBarbaccia: Fri, Oct 27, 2006, 9:09 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (Rich Kurtz: Fri, Oct 27, 2006, 2:26 pm) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (JBarbaccia: Mon, Oct 30, 2006, 7:59 am) re: Question about 'Force NumLock to Behave' (qwerty: Mon, Jun 28, 2010, 2:06 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum