How to turn ON/OFF Numlock on Start-up

You would be familiar with the numeric keypad present in most of the standard keyboards. These numeric keypads are used for entering numbers. However, these are also served for some other functions such as "Page Up", "Page Down", "End", "Home", e.t.c. depending on which mode of the "Num Lock" is being used.  By default, the Num Lock is turned off by the windows during startup. Now I am going to teach you the detailed method about how to set Windows to keep the Num Lock status "ON" as default. In fact, you will need to make a small change in your Windows Registry to turn the Num Lock ON everytime Windows starts up.

Caution: These step modifies the Windows Registry. So be aware and careful when following the steps. Damage the Windows Registry might damage your Windows. Proceed at your own risk.

•  Click on "Start" button from the taskbar.


• Goto "Run", and click your left mouse button. A little box will appear on your screen, just like that:


• Then type "regedit" and click "OK" to open the "Registry Editor"


• Expand to the following key:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelKeyboard

  
  


• Within the keyboard folder, you should have a string value named "InitialKeyboardIndicators" with a value of 0, 1, or 2.


• Double-click on this string value "InitialKeyboardIndicators" and edit the value to what you want. Below is the explaination of the values:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  0:	Num Lock is turned OFF on startup
  1:	Disable Num Lock
  2:	Num Lock is turned ON on startup