I like my num lock to be on by default when I enter Windows. On my work laptop it for some reason never was. Here’s how to fix it.
- Open RegEdit (Start, run, type regedit, hit enter)
- Select the top node, Computer
- Search for InitialKeyboardIndicators (Edit, Find or (Ctrl+F))
- If what you find has a numeric value, change it to one of the values below:
- 0 – Turn all indicators Off (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock)
- 1 – Turn CapsLock On
- 2 – Turn NumLock On
- 3 – Turn CapsLock and NumLock On
- 4 – Turn ScrollLock On
- 5 – Turn CapsLock and ScrollLock On
- 6 – Turn NumLock and ScrollLock On
- 7 – Turn all indicators On (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock)
- Keep searching (F3) until you’ve found all the numeric ones and changed them to the same value
Below are the different values you can set. I set mine to 2. Most of them already were, but some were some large number of several digits. Looked to be close to max int or something, so maybe a bug… either way, after rebooting my num lock key was now on 🙂
Source: Microsoft Answers