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How do you turn off the Num Lock key?

Anonymous
2010-05-05T05:47:45+00:00

Yes I have googled this! I have spent two hours googling this!

I have followed instructions on editing my registry and changing BIOS settings. I have come to the conclusion that these solutions only change the starting setting for Num Lock. But I want Num Lock completely disabled. When I press Num Lock I dont want anything to happen! I dont want the 6 key on the num pad to point right.... I dont want the toggle!

What do I do?

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-05-05T10:36:13+00:00

    Hi neverendingnoise,

    You might have tried this before, but here's how to disable it through the registry:

    1. Click Start, click Run, and type regedit to open the Windows registry editor.
    2. In the registry, open the below folders.

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\

    Control Panel\

    Keyboard
    3. Within the keyboard folder, you should have a string value named "InitialKeyboardIndicators" with a value of 0, 1, or 2. Below is the explanation of each of these values.

    0 = Num Lock is turned OFF after the logon.

    1 = Disable Num Lock.

    2 = Numlock is turned ON after  the logon.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-07-06T19:39:55+00:00

    Hi ! 

    The easiest way to turn off the num lock :

    1-Open Start menu

    2-Type on screen keyboard 

    3-After opening on screen keyboard click on options

    4-Then click on turn on numeric key padthen press ok

    after this it will appear on the on screen keyboard the num lockkey click on it

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-06-01T01:37:11+00:00

    Hi ! 

    The easiest way to turn off the num lock :

    1-Open Start menu

    2-Type on screen keyboard 

    3-After opening on screen keyboard click on options

    4-Then click on turn on numeric key padthen press ok

    after this it will appear on the on screen keyboard the num lockkey click on it 

    It's about time!  Thank you for this solution that took FOREVER to find!

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-06-09T19:56:28+00:00

    this doesn't work, I want the numlock key defaulted to on then disabled after that. Meaning I constantly and accidentally hit the num lock key when I type. I use the numeric keypad to type in numbers and I want to be able to do make sure the numbers appear regardless of what key I hit. Thanks in advance for the help!

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-14T04:04:16+00:00

    Disable Numlock before login.

    Here's how to disable it through the registry in two steps:

    Click Start, click Run, and type regedit to open the Windows registry editor. In the registry, open the below folders.

    Step 1

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\

    Control Panel\

    Keyboard\

    InitialKeyboardIndicators\ with value 0 (zero)

    Step 2

    HKEY_USERS\

    .DEFAULT\

    Control Panel\

    Keyboard\

    InitialKeyboardIndicators\ with value 0 (zero)

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