Peter,

At my high school, I got a bunch of hand-me-down computers whose num-lock
keys were off.  I changed the setting in the BIOS.

Ed Carpenter

At 09:06 PM 3/7/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I have run into a problem getting the num-lock key setting to stick. On my
>home machine, I am running Windows 2000 pro and it comes up with the
>num-lock set as I want it. However, at work I have Windows 2000 server. That
>machine keeps coming up with the num-lock turned off after a reboot. I
>changed the registry setting at HKEY_USER\.DEFAULT\ControlPanel\Keyboard -
>InitialKeyboardIndicators to be '2'. After the change it goes back to '0
>like magic when I shut down. In desperation, I made the change and turned
>off the power rather than going through shutdown (I know this is bad, but I
>was desperate!). All seemed ok for at least one reboot. Then the same thing
>started. I just can't get the num-lock to come on at boot up. Any help is
>appreciated. I did try to set the registry as Administrator as well as my
>own administrator level account with not difference.
>
>Thank you for any suggestions.
>
>Peter Shkabara, P.E.
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