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    Marc Richarme
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    ...that Windows 2000 turns off Num Lock when it boots? :confused: (and how can I change this, I find it quite annoying)

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    Marc

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      ...that Windows 2000 turns off Num Lock when it boots? :confused: (and how can I change this, I find it quite annoying)

      Cheers,
      Marc

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      Mike Nordell
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      I remember a bug where NT4 pre-sp3 did this too, but I haven't seen it since. Are you really sure you have numlock turned on when logging out, and the machine doesn't just crash on you? What about setting numlock to "on" in the BIOS?

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        ...that Windows 2000 turns off Num Lock when it boots? :confused: (and how can I change this, I find it quite annoying)

        Cheers,
        Marc

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        Roger Wright
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        Mine doesn't. I Drowned Schroedinger's Stupid Cat!

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          I remember a bug where NT4 pre-sp3 did this too, but I haven't seen it since. Are you really sure you have numlock turned on when logging out, and the machine doesn't just crash on you? What about setting numlock to "on" in the BIOS?

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          Marc Richarme
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          Num Lock is turned up in the bios, and the LED does light up until Windows starts, and it gets turned off :confused:

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          Marc

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          • M Marc Richarme

            ...that Windows 2000 turns off Num Lock when it boots? :confused: (and how can I change this, I find it quite annoying)

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            Marc

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            Lost User
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            Try this: q315468

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              Try this: q315468

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              Venet
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              It's kinda stupid really to have a script to run each time, just to turn a key on. Yes that happens to me as well, but NumLock turns ON straight away when I log on. Can't remember (if anythig) I set to make this happen Venet. -------- Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)

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                Try this: q315468

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                Marc Richarme
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                Thanks was helpful, but I still don't unserstand why Windows has to do it... I now noticied that it not only turns off num lock at boot, but also right after log on, and after log off (i.e. if I turn on numlock before logging on, it gets turned off again!! :wtf: )

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                • M Marc Richarme

                  Thanks was helpful, but I still don't unserstand why Windows has to do it... I now noticied that it not only turns off num lock at boot, but also right after log on, and after log off (i.e. if I turn on numlock before logging on, it gets turned off again!! :wtf: )

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                  Marc

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                  Marc Richarme
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                  Ahh... think I've got something interesting: here (Q101898) and here (Q154529)

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                  Marc

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                  • M Marc Richarme

                    ...that Windows 2000 turns off Num Lock when it boots? :confused: (and how can I change this, I find it quite annoying)

                    Cheers,
                    Marc

                    :beer: Click to see my *real* signature :beer:

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                    Brian Delahunty
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                    It can be changed in the registry. I can't remember the exact key though


                    "When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks] "It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9

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                    • L Lost User

                      Try this: q315468

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                      Chris Meech
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                      What's really absurd in all this is the first paragraph.

                      Windows preserves the keyboard state when a user logs off. When a user logs off and then logs on again, the NUM LOCK state is
                      set to "off."

                      In the first sentence you are told that Windows preserves the state. Wonderful idea. Then in the second sentence, it says, the state is set to "off". A complete reversal of the first sentence. Let me see know, person A wrote sentence one, person B wrote sentence two and person C was told to put the two together and publish it. Just CUBS and more of it. Chris

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