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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
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
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Posted July 20th, 2012 03:00
None of the settings work. Any other suggestions?
bigpops530
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Posted July 20th, 2012 03:00
None of the settings worked for me.
Any other suggestions?
bigpops530
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Posted July 20th, 2012 03:00
None of the setting worked for me. Any other suggestions?
geniuspro
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Posted 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