On my Inspiron 2650, XPSP3, the Numlock is always on when it boots up so that I have to turn it off before trying to login so the proper keypresses register.

I looked in the BIOS to see if it could be turned off there as I've seen on many other systems, but there is no option for that. I looked in the Software section of the Dell Support site, but didn't see any utility there to run in Windows to allow controlling this.

So how do I turn off the Numlock so it doesn't turn on automatically upon bootup?

Jonathan