Lately, I’ve been annoyed that a few of the computers I’ve set up have had NumLock on after each and every boot. The problem lies somewhere in the installation scripts, I’m sure, but as I have no power over those scripts, all I can do, is fix the problem whenever I spot it.
- Open the “run” dialog box, enter
regedit, and click ok - Find the following key:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators - Set the value of the key in accordance with the following table
| Status | Value |
| Turn all indicators Off (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock) | 0 |
| Turn CapsLock On | 1 |
| Turn NumLock On | 2 |
| Turn CapsLock and NumLock On | 3 |
| Turn ScrollLock On | 4 |
| Turn CapsLock and ScrollLock On | 5 |
| Turn NumLock and ScrollLock On | 6 |
| Turn all indicators On (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock) | 7 |