Windows 10: One sub folder in Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER wont save modify since update

Hey All - Any sage advice your have, I'll take it. I've been an avid Win 8.1 user for years, refusing to upgrade just because of stories I had heard. Well OK, also because I just liked 8.1. Certainly not because I don't like change, NOPE! Fine, I admit I don't like emoji's, I like ; ) I use classic shell and I desperately want the "right click" "select all"back in Word anyway, you get the point. But last week I decided to get on with it and try it. I bought Win 10 over a year ago and it's been on the shelf glaring down at me ever since. As a result I have an older version of Win 10 Home, which resulted in 6 hours of updating and upgrading. I know this issue may seem like a itty bitty small thing, but it drives me batty!

My ROG G751 defaults with the numloc OFF. I prefer to have the default ON. I have learned through having to redo it a bazillion times (updating and upgrading) now exactly what to change for it to work and believe me it took quite some time to even arrive at this solution as there are a ton of "working solutions" for this small change but this is the only the way that worked for this laptop. It worked in 8.1 but I have not been able to modify it and make it work since Win 10 Home or Pro.

In regedit I modify HKEY_CURRENT_USER under Control Panel, Keyboard, InitialKeyboardIndicators from it's current value of 2147483648 to a 2. I make this same change in HKEY__USERS, DEFAULT also under Control Panel, Keyboard, InitialKeyboardIndicators . I then change the next 4 under DEFAULT ( S-1-*) in the same manner. Reboot, come back it worked for my PIN but once at the desktop the numloc was no longer the default. So I went back into regedit and noticed that the change I had made didn't save in HKEY_CURRENT_USER but had saved in the others. So I made the modifications again. Reboot and same thing, it had saved all but the first one in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
So, I went back into regedit and instead of modifying the number string with a 2, I changed the last 2 numbers of the string (2147483648) to 50. I know it shouldn't matter but thought I'd try. Reboot and the same. Had saved all but the 1st one under HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

I checked the permissions and they looked right I'm pretty sure.

Any thoughts?
Jen

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When I move My Files To New Internal Drive, Folder Icons That I've Set Disappear

Hi,

The reason why the icon wont copy because its a different file location and will automatically set to default ones the folder/files went out the drive. We tried to re create the issue and we found this:

• Moving/copying a modified icon folder from a drive to another set the folder icon back to default.
• Moving/copying modified icon folder from a drive to any sub folder with in the drive will not set the icon to default.

Regards.

 

File Explorer Sort Customization

Louie - thank you for the feedback. However, I'm still struggling to accomplish my objective. I have extensive document files separated into folders with sub-folders and sub-sub-folders. Within each folder or sub-folder there are generally a dozen or more
sub-sub folders and 50-200 files that are not grouped. In opening File Explorer, I'd like to see categories or folders listed above files and have each section listed by date modified. In other words, folders A - Z listed by date modified followed by files,
again listed by date modified. Within each folder, sub-folders listed by date modified followed by files, again listed by date modified.

I've had success accomplishing this type of listing in prior versions of Windows but haven't gotten the hang of it in Windows 10. Any insight would be much appreciated. Thank you.

 

After making the registry settings disable the Fast Startup feature, also known as Hybrid Boot, overrides this setting and Windows will continue to boot with Num Lock off.

Step Two: Use This Trick (or Disable Fast Startup)

 

Thank you very much. Learn something new everyday and I hadn't known this. I'll go check it out now and hopefully I can come and mark this solved!

Jen

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OK, I'm back. Disabled fast boot restarted made the modification. Saved and restarted. Came back the modification was gone. So I logged off and rebooted to ensure I had saved BIOS settings. Indeed fast boot is off and it still didn't make the modification. There must be something else that's overriding the modifications . It really makes no sense that 4 keys could be modified and saved and 1 is not. Thanks for the try though.

If you think of something else I'm game.

Regards, Jen

 

Somewhere online I found this Autohotkey script. It does the trick: Code: ; NumLock Enforcer - Monitors the Num Lock key ... turns it back on after someone turns it off ; Request: Force NUMLOCK always on - DonationCoder.com appname=NumLock Enforcer SetTimer, EnforceNumLock, 500 return EnforceNumLock: NumLockStatus := GetKeyState("Numlock", "T") IfEqual, NumLockStatus, 0 { SetNumLockState, On ;TrayTip,%appname%,NumLock Status = On,,1 ; UNCOMMENT THIS LINE IF YOU WANT SOME KIND OF FEEDBACK } return ; Win+p pauses the script,just in case you need the NumLock. #p:ause[/quote]

 

First time ever that NUM Lock works in Win Ten. Thanks for opening this thread.

The given link is not clear regarding Regedit. Searching registry with the following works:

InitialKeyboardIndicators

InitialKeyboardIndicators/F3/Force search

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\control Panel\Keyboard/InitialKeyboardIndicators/2

The value was already at 2.


HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel'Keyboard/InitialKeyboardIndicators/2

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Control Panel\Keyboard/InitialKeyboardIndicators /2

-Exit and Shut down

-Boot to login screen and enable the NUM Lock key (check if working) and shut down without entering password.

No need to disable fast startup. Works in 16299 and 17083.

17083.1000 shows this:

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Control Panel\Keyboard

All the best,

Edit: F10/BIOS/Advanced/Device options/NUM Lock State at Power-On/On

 

Machine is dual boot, no side effect on both sides. NUM Lock keyboard is permanently enable at the login screen.

There must be something you do wrong or a value(s) that was changed that prevents the registry from memorizing* the new value.