Optiplex 3060 SFF Num Lock

Fixed it! The regedit does work, and you do NOT have to disable Fast Boot.

Post in The Windows Club is a little old, but still valid. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/numlock-startup-windows-7-8  (Btw, Dell Support offered this option as well, which kind of surprised me.)

Here are the directions with a little clarity from me:

Enable Num Lock on startup using registry tweak

The second method is to alter the registry settings and so, Windows 10/8/7 users can try this. I would strongly recommend taking a backup of the registry and create a system restore point first. Having done that, follow these steps:

• Press Win + R and type in Regedit
• Navigate to registry key HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Keyboard
• Right-click on the “InitialKeyboardIndicators”, select Modify and change Value data to 2.
• Exit Registry.
• Reboot to confirm.
• I changed "Default" user to 2. I read elsewhere that all Users had to be changed, but by changing the Default account, all other User accounts were changed to 2 as well.

Note: If you see the default value data as 2147483648; that is fine too and is the default on most installations. (My PC's value was 2147483648.)

Good luck and always remember to backup!