In news:ebe48e75-1617-43df-908a-b388b3eac8ce@l26g2000yqd.googlegroups.com,
Jose <jose_ease@yahoo.com> typed:
> On Feb 2, 3:09 pm, "SC Tom" <s...@tom.net> wrote:
>> "mm" <NOPSAMmm2...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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>>> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:18:05 -0800, Omaha Tony
>>> <OmahaT...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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>>>> New problem just started and don't know why. When I boot up my PC,
>>>> the "num
>>>> lock" light was always automatically on, allowing me to use the
>>>> numeric keys.
>>>> It wont come on automatically any more. I have to turn it on
>>>> manually evry
>>>> time I boot up the PC. What has caused this change and how can I
>>>> get it back
>>>> to what it used to do. Thank you.
>>
>>>> Tony
>>
>>> Isn't this a job for tweakui? A free download. Specify XP.
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>>> I don't have it installed right now or I would check.
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>> That's what I thought, too, but I can't find a numlock listing.
>> I know on my PC, XP remembers the shut down state- if it's off when
>> I turn the PC off, it'll be off when next I boot up, even though I
>> have it set to on in BIOS.
>> --
>> SC Tom
>
> There may not be a way to set it in every BIOS. The BIOS settings
> will get overridden
> first by XP, then by the user profile when the user logs in. The XP
> default is all indicators
> off.
>
> Let's say you could not change it in the BIOS - what would you do?
>
> You could change it in .DEFAULT, but that would only apply to newly
> created users, so that isn't
> quite right.
>
> XP remembers (possible changes) the setting when a user logs off or
> the system is shutdown
> and applies it again when the user logs in. This is why the BIOS
> setting may appear "not to work" or
> the keys seem to keep changing. Nothing is broken, they are behaving.
>
> You will have the same settings when you login that you had when you
> logged out or shutdown. Another
> user may have different settings.
>
> Each user has their own setting in their profile.
>
> You can adjust the default setting for each newly created user profile
> or for an individual
> profile by adjusting the value of:
>
> InitialKeyboardIndicators
>
> For the current user the location for InitialKeyboardIndicators is:
>
> HKCU\CONTROL PANEL\KEYBOARD
>
> Here are all the values for InitialKeyboardIndicators:
>
> * 0 - all indicators off
> * 1 - Caps Lock on
> * 2 - Num Lock on
> * 4 - Scroll Lock on
>
> Or, combine them by adding the values to some other number:
>
> * 3 - Caps Lock and Num Lock on
> * 5 - Caps Lock and Scroll Lock on
> * 6 - Num Lock and Scroll Lock on
> * 7 - Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock on
>
> For all (new) users, the location for InitialKeyboardIndicators is:
>
> HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\CONTROL PANEL\KEYBOARD
That's excellent information, Jose! Thanks.
TWayne
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