I am running XP Pro on my TR3A machine.  Recently it started booting with the numlock on every time.

I can’t find anything in the Windows Help and have already checked the BIOS and don’t see any option for this that I might have messed up.

I also searched here and did not find anything applicable.

Does anyone know what’s causing this or what I can look for?  It’s very annoying on a keyboard with no actual number pad to have the numlock on at boot time.

You could try to reverse these instructions .

That website almost had the fix but it gave me enough info to find the actual problem.

There are two registry keys involved.

The website had me set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators to 2 to turn it on but mine was already 0 (which is supposed to be off) so that wasn’t it.

The Windows Annoyance website also listed a second key HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators and it mine a value of 2 in it.  That was my problem.  I set it to zero and all is well.

Here is a list of valid values:

Change the value to any of the following:
0 - all indicators off
1 - Caps Lock on
2 - Num Lock on
4 - Scroll Lock on

Or, combine them by adding the corresponding values:

3 - Caps Lock and Num Lock on
5 - Caps Lock and Scroll Lock on
6 - Num Lock and Scroll Lock on
7 - Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock on