How do you enable the NumLock key in NT4.....BIOS is already enabled

[joemama]

Anyone know how to enable the NumLock key in the software in NT4 ? I have enabled it in the BIOS and it still not on after bootup. Any of you guru's have some ideas ? Thanks in advance.

 

[TonyRic]

You need to set a key in the registery but Idon't remember which one... Go to regedit.com and do a search on numlock...

 

[Doug117]

Mine seems to work fine... yeah, the first time after you install NT, the NumLock isnt on, but after I turned it on for the first time, it stuck... Wierd, huh?

 

[kranky]

In regedit, go to HKCU\Control Panel\Keyboard and change InitialKeyboardIndicators from 0 to 2.

Usual warnings about fooling with registry apply.

 

[StuckMojo]

i just had this problem in win2k...msdn says to log out using ctrl+alt+del and it will stick...or edit reg as above. i had this before with nt4 and fixed it with the reg key. however, on my 2k box, the damn system set the reg key back every time i logged out!! very odd

so, my solution, which will help you, should you also have this prob, was to use regedt32 and set the privs on that key to deny everything, thus the OS didnt have write privs to set it back.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Only the Administrator's NumLock state is saved in NT4 for some reason. The reg hack had work for me in the past, but I haven't touched NT since 2000 went gold.

-SUO