Vista turns off Numlock

EJDC · 07-06-2008, 04:14 AM

This is hardly a serious problem - merely an irritant. My BIOS is set to turn ON Numlock at boot, and indeed it does so. But when VISTA loads, it turns it off again. The key is not disabled, so it's easy enough to turn it on.

VISTA 'Help and Support' makes no mention of Numlock; another forum suggested editing a registry entry in CurrentUser\...\Keyboard Default (something like that - changing a 0 to a 2), but that didn't work either.

Anyone have any suggestions on this ???

**sobeit** · 07-06-2008, 04:20 AM

see

http://onlineitpro.com/?p=69

EJDC · 07-06-2008, 08:18 AM

Thanks, sobeit - but that does NOT work. After making the change in the registry, verifying it, and then rebooting, the Numlock light - as before - is turned on by BIOS, but then goes out during the loading of Vista.

And what's more, the value of InitialKeyboardIndicators has been reset to 0 !

Any further suggestions ?

07-06-2008, 04:14 AM	#1 (permalink)
EJDC Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: France Posts: 33 OS: Vista + SP2, XP+SP3 My System	Vista turns off Numlock This is hardly a serious problem - merely an irritant. My BIOS is set to turn ON Numlock at boot, and indeed it does so. But when VISTA loads, it turns it off again. The key is not disabled, so it's easy enough to turn it on. VISTA 'Help and Support' makes no mention of Numlock; another forum suggested editing a registry entry in CurrentUser\...\Keyboard Default (something like that - changing a 0 to a 2), but that didn't work either. Anyone have any suggestions on this ???

07-06-2008, 04:20 AM	#2 (permalink)
sobeit TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NEAR Posts: 7,433 OS: windows/linux	Re: Vista turns off Numlock see http://onlineitpro.com/?p=69 __________________ there's been global warming since the ice age

07-06-2008, 08:18 AM	#3 (permalink)
EJDC Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: France Posts: 33 OS: Vista + SP2, XP+SP3 My System	Re: Vista turns off Numlock Thanks, sobeit - but that does NOT work. After making the change in the registry, verifying it, and then rebooting, the Numlock light - as before - is turned on by BIOS, but then goes out during the loading of Vista. And what's more, the value of InitialKeyboardIndicators has been reset to 0 ! Any further suggestions ?