Keep Num Lock on after start-up

I also tried all of the fixes.  I did finally get numlock to stay on.  I do not know exactly what finally worked.I worked with the registry key as per the JPEG and that did not work.

1.  I made sure numlock was on in bios (it was). 

2.  I booted and at the point where numlock went off, before the boot screen appeared and I pushed the numlock key one time to turn it back on.

3. Numlock turned off again during the boot screen displaying.  Again I pushed the numlock key once and made sure it was on when the login screen displayed.

I went through this reboot sequence twice more making sure numlock was on when the login screen displayed.  Previoulsy, anytime I returned to the login screen, numlock went off.  It did not matter if I went via Start> Shutdown or Ctrl-Alt-Delete; numlock would go off.  Now when I go to the login screen, numlock remains on and has done so through two of three reboots.  For some reason it went off on my second reboot.

I consider this a bug in Windows Seven Ultimate and I hop MS will address it.

I have tried every thing that is in this forum. Not one of them worked. I have a HP Pavilion 2170us Laptop Vista Home Premium 64.bit OS  factory installed. I have upgraded to Windows 7 Pro. The way that I was able to keep the numlock on at boot up was to use Windows easy transfer to transfer the system settings from my HP Desktop which just happens to be a Windows 7 Pro that had been a XP OP 32bit from the factory. I just transfered the system settings. I not sure what changed as I looked in the registry and all keyboard settings are the same. But I now have number lock on at startup.

Also it doesn't matter if the old system is running Vista XP or Windows 7 as I upgraded another PC from XP to Windows 7 used easy transfer and num lock stayed on. Thats where I got the idea.

I have tried every thing that is in this forum. Not one of them worked. I have a HP Pavilion 2170us Laptop Vista Home Premium 64.bit OS  factory installed. I have upgraded to Windows 7 Pro. The way that I was able to keep the numlock on at boot up was to use Windows easy transfer to transfer the system settings from my HP Desktop which just happens to be a Windows 7 Pro that had been a XP OP 32bit from the factory. I just transfered the system settings. I not sure what changed as I looked in the registry and all keyboard settings are the same. But I now have number lock on at startup.

So, basically you are saying that the website I have alluded to is completely inaccurate. 

As far as binary numbers are concerned, what are the following binary numbers: 0001, 0011, 0101, 0111?

As far as having the second bit set the CAPS LOCK is concerned, have you ACTUALLY TRIED IT or are you just copying some out-dated documentation?

Have you even read what I wrote? I was present when someone from IBM set the 'second' flag and this did NOT set the state of the CAPS LOCK key. Furthermore as per my above posting I physically tried every single value from '0' to '7' and a value of '2' did NOT SET THE CAPS LOCK (By the way, two is 2^1 just like you stated.) Furthermore when I did not lock the value Windows 7 ALWAYS reset it two '2.' Does that adhere to your 'documentation'? When I restarted my computer WITHOUT altering the value of '2' placed into the registry position the CAPS LOCK was NOT SET as per your posting.

You see, in some companies the technical writers are unable to test what they write because the product they are discussing is not even in existence. Someone tells them how they believe it 'should' work and they have no way of testing what they are writing. When they complete the documentation someone stamps the word 'official' on the document. In other words, stamping a document as being 'official' does NOT mean it is 'correct.'

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