Windows 10: Num Lock key on at boot

Try the fix in post #12.

 

Do you have to leave fast start-up turned off after the registry change? In the increased boot time I would get, I could hit the num lock key a hundred times!

 

***checking and rebooting****

Edit: *Redface Aren't I the idiot. It appears it's no longer required. **tee-hee**

 

Using the number 2 only in that Registry tweak worked for me IF I had left the NumLock on when I shut down or restarted.

 

This fixed my problem, thanks!

 

As I wrote in #2 you have just to put the value 2 in this place, and in another also for having numlock on in Windows.

See Brink's tutorial here:
Toggle Keys at Startup

It has worked on every PC I have set up. No need to fiddle around with "Fast Startup", or should I say "I have never needed to change Fast StartUp" to get Numlock on at the login screen.

 

I know. I tried that, and it didn't work. Disabling fastboot is what did it for me.

 

lol I hadn't seen that tutorial. The funny thing is that in Vista & Win7, I didn't need to change anything to have Numlock working from boot on any of my home desktops. On Win8 my main desktop required the value '2' for InitialKeyboardIndicators. In Win10, on the rig in my sig, the value '2' only worked from a warm boot but would fail on a cold boot. The only way to get it to work was to change the value to either '2147483650' decimal or '80000002' in hex. The 'Fast Startup' option just appears to make it work for all machines although is not required for mine. Why? I don't know. It just seems that everyone has unique hardware / software configurations that require slightly different settings. It would be much easier if MS had a simple numlock setting for the keyboard in the Control Panel somewhere.

Edit: If you look at another tenforums thread Numlock defaults to off, you can see how the value '2' occasionally fails in a cold boot for other folks too.

 

This fix worked for me. I changed to using a PIN for login but the NUMLOCK key on my Dell laptop was off at the login screen and there is no BIOS option to change it. This fix worked. I've since re-enabled fast start up and ll is fine.

 

I press the numlock key after PC has booted which also clears the lock screen so I can begin typing.

 

That's a nifty idea! A bit of extra security as well if someone is looking over your shoulder *Smile

 

Thanks for this. It solved mine with value of 2 and reboot. I have a k330 logitech keyboard and always had problem logging in with alphanumeric password. Thanks much!!!

 

Thanks for this. It solved mine with value of 2 and reboot. I have a k330 logitech keyboard and always had problem logging in with alphanumeric password. Thanks much!!!

sorry for double post. can't find how to delete this second one..