There’s nothing more annoying then creating your computer sign in name with alphanumeric characters, and having to keep hitting your numlock key on your keyboard every time you wish to use you’re number pad. 

Thats because Windows XP sets your numlock to off everytime you shutdown or reboot your computer instead of leaving it on.

Heres how to fix this pesky problem 

To have numlock set to ‘on,’ for each default user do the following registry edit:

  1. Click Start -> Run -> and type in Regedit and hit ok
  2. On the left click the + sign indicator beside each folder on the left until you navigate to the following.
  3. HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators
  4. Right click on the InitialKeyboardIndicators on the right hand side and change the value from 0 to 2.
  5. This will set the numlock key to on by default, that way  after each reboot or restart of your computer it stays on.
  6. To test that it worked, Log off and back on again. 

Your numlock led light indicator should be on!

Download the Registry Edit for Numlock on By Defualt

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