Want to set 'num lock' to be on and active at Windows 7 Log-in screen on new HP G60-530US laptop.

Anonymous
2009-11-18T21:19:38+00:00

Have tried a number of methods to have num-lock activated at Windows log-on that were suggested for XP and Vista, but with no success. These include making registry changes to set

InitialKeyboardIndicators to a value of 2 at

HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard and

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard

and also running a numlock.vbs script in

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

as per Microsoft support site http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/314879

Regardless of what I have tried, including shutting down with num lock activated, num lock will be 'off' when the computer is rebooted. There is no setting in the BIOS to control num lock. Does anyone have another suggestion?

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Anonymous
2010-07-01T17:15:38+00:00

I experienced the same problem myself; fortunately, the solution is simple.  For some reason, the default value of some of the registry keys (not all) were changed in windows 7, which causes the system to apparently ignore the InitialKeyboardIndicators settings in the other locations.  All that is requireded is the performance of a search of the registry using regedit for that key.  It is important to use the find function to locate ALL keyboard keys forInitialKeyboardIndicators and set them to the same value setting.  The value options are as follows:

0 - Turn all indicators Off (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock)

1 - Turn CapsLock On

2 - Turn NumLock On

3 - Turn CapsLock and NumLock On

4 - Turn ScrollLock On

5 - Turn CapsLock and ScrollLock On

6 - Turn NumLock and ScrollLock On

7 - Turn all indicators On (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock)

In my case, the string value was some 7 or 8 digit number such as 21765430.  These entries are the cause of the reboot change in the num lock status.  If you want it on when you boot, set the string value to 2 in all the keys with numeric values.  Problem solved!

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-03-02T09:01:41+00:00

    thanks. It helped me solving my problem.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-01-13T03:58:30+00:00

    Thanks for the tip, I also had 3 keys with similar numbers and changed them all to 2 now numlock works at boot

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-12-28T20:53:37+00:00

    Hopefully the support enineers have learned from these posts that it is in fact a function of Windows7 and in fact has been in previous versions of Windows.  If the Bios has this function well and good, but many bios do not.  Even if the bios does, quite often windows will change it during boot up.  Thanks to CEPtor for your registry fix.  Changing the 3rd search item from the long string to just the number 2 fixed it for me without any other issues.

    Thanks again CEPtor

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-12-21T02:39:38+00:00

    that happened to me,  after installing ubuntu 10.04, 10.11, and now that i reinstalled grub2, i think grub2 has something to do here, i also don't know if it changes other registry entries. i just see the InitialKeyboardIndicators value to have more than one digit, after the grub2 reinstall, or after installing ubuntu 10.04/10.11

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