Dec 11, 2010

Turn On/Off numlock on StartUp

Mostly keyboards have small numeric keypad which can also be used for some other functions like page up, page down. It also has 1 key known as numlock key when it is on, keypad used for numbers and when numlock is off, keypad used for other functions.
Windows turn off numlock key by default, so if you want to turn on numlock key by default on start up then now you can do it very easily. You have to do only some changes in registry. Just follow these steps:


1). Open run and Type Regedit and hit Enter.
2). Windows will ask for your permission to continue, click on continue.
3). Now in registry editor browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\.
4). Now in the keyboard folder, you should have a string value named InitialKeyboardIndicators with a value of 0, 1, or 2.



5). Double-click on this string value InitialKeyboardIndicators and edit the value to what you want.

0: Num Lock is turned OFF on startup
1: Disable Num Lock
2: Num Lock is turned ON on startup
6). Click ok.
Its done.

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