In my case, the registry entry was set to some high value, which seems to have triggered NumLock on. Unfortunately, there is no NumLock indicator light on the keyboard (designed to be used with a ThinkPad, which displays NumLock status on the screen), so I couldn’t tell whether it was active or not.Ī bit of experimentation at login and I found that the NumLock was being enabled by default on my new box – and a search of the BIOS settings didn’t turn up any options there for disabling it.Ī quick Google search found some discussions about the issue, which identified a registry setting you can set to adjust this.ī) navigate to: HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\KeyboardĬ) Adjust the value of InitialKeyboardIndicators to one of the following values:Ġ – Turn all indicators Off (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock)ħ – Turn all indicators On (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock) I did also notice at one point that I was getting strange characters when I typed, which I quickly realised was the NumLock on the keyboard being activated.

I attached my ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint to the machine (love these keyboards – the feel and usability of a ThinkPad keyboard on a desktop!!), but after setup, I found that I was having difficulty logging in with the username and password I had specified. I recently rebuilt my home server machine to run Windows 7.