Keep Num Lock on after start-up

Anonymous
2008-12-22T16:09:28+00:00

How do I make windows start-up with the Number Lock on?

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Anonymous
2008-12-22T19:42:50+00:00

Windows will remember the setting you use at shutdown, usually. If you have trouble with that, there is a registry setting you can make to do it. If you are comfortable with that, for now you can go to :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard] (or [HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard] for all users) "InitialKeyboardIndicators"="2"

Later, you can come back to this thread when the "FitIt4me" team has the button developed to do that for you. They should be finishing up development work on that pretty soon.

Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-10-25T20:28:07+00:00

    I tried this and was not able to fix it. Is "pressing the num lock key" when the computer is off going to work? How does pressing a key when the computer is off going to do anything?

    The directions, while they seem easy, are a bit confusing. Can you help?

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-08-25T20:10:56+00:00

    How do I make windows start-up with the Number Lock on?

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-08-25T20:05:45+00:00

    How do I make windows start-up with the Number Lock on?

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-06-10T20:16:44+00:00

    I am trying to follow your link from above. All I get is this document has moved or is no longer available. Where can I find it now??

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