Num Lock not turned on when booting Windows 8

Anonymous

Hi everyone,

After turning on my system after loading Windows 8, the Num Lock does not turn on automatically as it is set in my BIOS. I followed suggestions given in the forums and changed the registry entries for the InitialKeyboardIndicators key in the registry to have a value of 2. This still does not work.

What I noticed is that if I sign off in Windows 8 and then select shut down after signing out, the num lock light will be on after rebooting my system. However, if I go into settings and power off directly without signing off, num lock is turned off when I reboot my PC.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Michael

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Anonymous

Try:

Control Panel => Hardware and Sound => Power Options => System Settings

Uncheck (Turn on fast startup).

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Anonymous

I cannot find the suggested path in Windows 8.1's Control Panel.

See my hints on page 1 of this thread? There is no direct path there. You must take the detour via the "Choose what the power buttons do" link. That's what I described as: Win-X O, Tab, Tab, Enter.

BTW I am now using the W8.2 on Surface RT and although it has the above link it doesn't have any way of achieving the ultimate objective (of turning off "Fast Startup"). I do remember that I would have been using a real W8.1 to make my observations. However, since this is essentially a BIOS function I now suspect you are more likely to be able to do something similar via the Advanced Restart function. So, see if instead you can do what you need via Win-w Advanced Startup Enter (and then Restart from there).

Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle

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Anonymous

2012-11-28T06:01:13+00:00

There's no system settings in power options

I've tried searching...

Me too.   Evidently that is a mistake.   ; }

Here's a keystroke alternative to what we are being told:   Win-X, O, Tab, Tab, Enter

However at this point apparently we could take a useful detour into the Help...

F1, Ctrl-f fast Enter Esc Backtab, Tab, Enter, CursorDown a few.

See: "Fast startup is a setting that helps your PC start up faster after shutdown." ...

Either close the Help (Alt-F4) or switch back to the Control Panel you started it from (Alt-Tab)

Now, unless you are already running as an Admin you probably need to press Enter in order to

"Change settings that are currently unavailable"

Return from that.

Now, HTH do we get to the bottom of the window?  Perhaps maximize it to see the problem: Alt-Space,X

Oh, I know:   Alt-d, Backtab.   (See where we're going yet? <w>) Then a bunch more Backtabs where you could do another detour with some Help (e.g. press Enter on Learn More)

Hope you can see the target checkbox now?   <eg>

The usability of this panel is atrocious.

HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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Anonymous

2012-11-29T22:21:43+00:00

works great! thank you
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Anonymous

2012-12-04T15:02:12+00:00

The value to change numlock on in win8 is in computer\HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT\Controlpanel\Keyboard and the value is 2147483648

Change the value to 2147483650

To get to this go to the lower left on desktop (not the tiles page) when start shows, right click and select run. type in regedit.exe click ok.

it will ask for permission to allow changes click yes.

Then you can follow the computer HKEY_USERS ... trail.
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