If you don't have any options in BIOS, you can perform a simple registry edit.
Click Start, click Run, and type regedit to open the Windows registry editor.
In the registry, open the below folders.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Control Panel\ Keyboard\
Within the keyboard folder, you should have a string value named "InitialKeyboardIndicators" with a value of 0, 1, or 2. Below is the explanation of each of these values.
0 = Num Lock is turned OFF after the logon. 1 = Disable Num Lock. 2 = Numlock is turned ON after the logon.
Actually it was in the HKEY_USERS\.Default key which makes sense since it was happening at bootup even before I logged in and that's under control of the .Default user key, but it was set to 2. So I changed it to 0 which should fix the problem. Thanks for the knowledge about the registry key! I don't know how it got set that way and I'm surprised there's nothing in the BIOS or any Dell utility to run to change it.
geniuspro
13 Posts
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February 20th, 2009 20:00
Hi Jonathan,
If you don't have any options in BIOS, you can perform a simple registry edit.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\
Control Panel\
Keyboard\
0 = Num Lock is turned OFF after the logon.
1 = Disable Num Lock.
2 = Numlock is turned ON after the logon.
Tell me if it works.
Cheers,
geniuspro
jpleslie
36 Posts
0
February 21st, 2009 21:00
Actually it was in the HKEY_USERS\.Default key which makes sense since it was happening at bootup even before I logged in and that's under control of the .Default user key, but it was set to 2. So I changed it to 0 which should fix the problem. Thanks for the knowledge about the registry key! I don't know how it got set that way and I'm surprised there's nothing in the BIOS or any Dell utility to run to change it.
Jonathan
bigpops530
3 Posts
0
July 20th, 2012 03:00
None of the settings work. Any other suggestions?
bigpops530
3 Posts
0
July 20th, 2012 03:00
None of the settings worked for me.
Any other suggestions?
bigpops530
3 Posts
0
July 20th, 2012 03:00
None of the setting worked for me. Any other suggestions?