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December 29th, 2001 05:00

HardyHar: I just solved NumLock off isse.

In the previous post I stated that NumLock is off in Win XP even thought it is setup as On in the BOIS setup.

Here is how it has been corrected:

1- In Control Panel, Accessibility Options, Mouse tab.
2- In MouseKeys click Settings
3- If you also use the numeric keypad for data entry, click Off. If you use the numeric keypad for navigation and for the INSERT and DELETE keys, click On.

Thanks
Zoka

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December 29th, 2001 06:00

NumLock does not toggle on by default (system-wide), even if you have it set in your PC's BIOS, because of XP's multi-user functionality. Guess Microsoft doesn't know everyone actually turns it on, which should be reason enough for what acts as "default"...

Anyway, you can hack the Windows Registry to change this behavior.

To enable NumLock through the Registry:

* Open Windows' Registry Editor (START > RUN, type "REGEDIT").
*. Navigate to HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Keyboard.
*. Change the value for InitialKeyboardIndicators from 0 to 2.
* Reboot XP




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December 29th, 2001 11:00

Mike: In spite of your assurances, not every user wants the numlock on! Many of us don’t even like having a numeric keypad on the keyboard! My wife insists it is only there for those who never learned to type…

In any case, thank both of you for posting that information.

One question: What does a value of 1 do with InitialKeyboardIndicators???


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