Many thanks to all who contribute to MSFN - I am learning more than I ever expected. I am experimenting with unattended installations of WindowsXP SP2, and for some reason, the NUMLOCK key is never activated when the system boots up for the first time. If I don't manually activate it, then reboot, it never self-activates. Its not a deal breaker, but I hoped that someone encountered the same thing and figured out why. My BIOS has always been set to turn it on automatically

Thx

Jeff Peshek

jpeshek@carolina.rr.com

jpeshek, Welcome on "THE" forum B)

If you want to set the startup state for any or all of these keys, you just need to edit the registry.

- Start Regedit

- Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Keyboard

- Open InitialKeyboardIndicators

- Change the value to one of the following numbers

0 - All Keys off

1 - Caps Lock on

2 - Num Lock on

4 - Scroll Lock on

For multiple keys, add their values:

3 - Caps Lock and Num Lock on

5 - Caps Lock and Scroll Lock on

6 - Num Lock and Scroll Lock on

7 - Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock on

-Log off and back on again

Windows Xp some times doesn´t do what you tell it to do .

Thx Punto