Im back to XP and got away from vista, I was wondering if theres a way to make the numlock automatically turn on when I turn on my computer and am in the welcome screen. Help is appreciated

Turn that option ON in BIOS

I have it set on in the bios..... My num lock is on when I turn on the computer but when the windows boot screen stops and switches to the welcome screen my numlock turns back off.

To have the numlock on when you boot, there are two methods.

1.) From the login screen (if you auto login, just logout), make sure numlock is on, then select shutdown. Next restart XP should (may!) remember the setting - This does not always work.

2.) Goto the registry (run regedit.exe) and update HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators to 2, or copy and past the following into a text file, save with a .reg extension and double click to enter into registry.

 Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard]
 "InitialKeyboardIndicators"="2"

I tried the registry one and it is already set to "2" . Ill try the logoff, make sure numlock is on then shutdown when I get home. Thanks.

SOOTHSAYER you are the man It worked by logging out turning on numlock and shutting down. Thanks to all tho. Problem fixed