NUMLOCK Key

[Ulf]

How do You change the Default State of the NUMLOCK Key in Windows 95?

[Jordi]

As far as I know, you don't alter that from Windows, but from your BIOS.
When your computer boots, even before Windows loads, there should be a splash screen of sorts. You usually enter the BIOS setup from that screen by pressing a button (functions buttons, f1-f12, del, backspace, insert, it could be any of them or another one altogether). Look around there for the Numlock thing. Be very careful what you fool around with, though, that info is even more sensitive than your Windows Registry, tampering with it might make your harddisk inaccessible, but common sense should prevent that. ;-)

[Ulf]

I already did that and the NUMLOCK is always on when the machine boots.
But then, when Win95 loads, as the last step in the loading process, Win95 turns the NUMLOCK key off!
Does anybody have a solution?

[Anonymous]

http://www.regedit.com/cgi-bin/detail?id=196

try the one to windows NT it could probably work
if not, it shouldn't do any harm

[Ulf]

I have tried it.
It didn't any harm.
But it didn't work either!
Works only on NT.

[PatrickOBrien]

here's the trick:

place this entry in your config.sys file towards the bottom.

Numlock=off

OR

Numlock=On

It can be done in WIN NT too. must be done from the registry though. Right now im too lazy to pull out my notes i'll be back with the drill down method to the subkey

Peace

[MFischer50]

In NT 4.0, it is in the following location

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\CONTROL PANEL\KEYBOARD]
change the setting for the string InitialKeyboardIndicators to:
0 for Off
2 for On