Its the little things that drive you nutz! I have been unable to get Vista to default the Numlock to the ON state at boot up. I have set my Dell computer BIOS setting to ON for the Numlock, and it does initially go on at initial boot, however, once the Vista password login window appears, the Numlock turns off. A Google search of the web did not provide any solutions, but I did note that there were many similar posts looking for a solution to this issue. Any suggestions?

Hi jim-in-phx,
This should be a solution for you: (leave it set for on in BIOS to)
1. open regedit 2. goto HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard 3. in right pane, right click on "InitialKeyboardIndicators" 4. click MODIFY 5. change value to "2" (no quotes) ("0" for off) 6. click OK to apply 7. close regedit 8. reboot & should be on now
Hope this helps you, Shawn
brink
"Practice makes perfect, then you reinstall" Vista 64 Home Premium 1.5 Gig DDR2 533 Mhz (PC4200) RAM

I'm going to give you some second hand info that I can't verify myself.
First, the default setting for the keyboard is set user-by-user and is controlled through the registry. "I am told" that the registry setting for num lock is either 0 or 2, depending on what you want.
Try one, if that doesn't work the way you like then try the other.
Incidentally, I am using Vista Home Premium on a new Compaq computer. For some reason, NUM LOCK defaults to ON with my standard 102-key PS2 keyboard. Don't know how or why because I didn't do anything to force that. Glad it is on though.

On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:55:00 -0700, jim-in-phx wrote:

Thanks for the info. I still cannot get the Numlock to default ON, but I now know regedit is still alive and well (hadn't been able to find it in Vista before).
The initial setting for InitialKeyboardIndicators was set at 2, so I tried resetting to 0, with the same results.
I also tried a little experiment, with interesting results. During boot, BIOS turns Numlock on, during initial Vista Premium boot, Vista turns it off. At Vista login (password) screen, I manually turned it on to enter my password, then manually turned it off, just before clicking enter, and once Vista continued to load, it did turn Numlock back on. Seems like a bug in the Vista initial login proceedure? Bill...are you listening?
"brink" wrote:

It should come up on boot the way it was set when you last shut down. Independent settings for each user, however.
On Fri, 11 May 2007 07:17:29 GMT, John Wesley Asquith wrote:

Jay. (remove dashes for legal email address)

jim-in-phx;305080 Wrote:

Ok,
Here's another method I found that is reported to have worked. I don't know for sure, but it's worth a try :
1. hit NumLock to have light ON 2. press "Ctrl + Alt + Del" 3. click Log Off from the drop down menu 4. log back in and reboot for the test
If this doesn't do it, then repeat above, but do a shutdown with it on and restart.
Don't use the method through start menu. This is reported to have reset the startup of numlock.
Hope it helps, Shawn
brink
"Practice makes perfect, then you reinstall" Vista 64 Home Premium 1.5 Gig DDR2 533 Mhz (PC4200) RAM

Dear Jim
Your problem caught my imagination.
1) InitialKeyboardIndicators =2 did not work on my Vista laptop 2) Two-line VBScript - Logon Script May work in the Startup folder
Copy into notepad
set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") objShell.SendKeys "{NUMLOCK}"
3) I have been experimenting with Windiff for projects such as yours. Unfortunately, I cannot find any 'difference' before and after pressing Num Lock
computerperformance.co.uk/vista/vista_registry_windiff.htm
"jim-in-phx"

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