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Offline Michelle

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How to keep numlock enabled on boot
« on: September 13, 2007, 17:58 »
My boyfriend's new laptop (second hand) doesn't start up with numlock enabled as he would like it.

I've had a look on line, and it seems it need to be changed in the registry - I don't really like to do this, so does anyone know of another way?

thankee in advance

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Re: How to keep numlock enabled on boot
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2007, 18:17 »
Maybe a dumb question, Michelle, but does he have a numeric keypad - most lappies don't?
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Re: How to keep numlock enabled on boot
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2007, 19:39 »
Is there an option in Control Panel/Regional-Language Options/keyboard & Languages.


Offline Baz

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Re: How to keep numlock enabled on boot
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2007, 21:00 »
dont know about lappys but isnt it usually in the bios set up?

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Re: How to keep numlock enabled on boot
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2007, 22:09 »
not sure if in bios - yes it is numeric keypad

I'll look for that TR

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Re: How to keep numlock enabled on boot
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2007, 00:57 »
This should do the job for you, Michelle.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314879
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Re: How to keep numlock enabled on boot
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2007, 16:13 »
ah, thanks alot Rik

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