How to Force Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock keys behaviour in Windows Vista?


You must have seen that when you log on to your system then Vista automatically turns on either Num Lock, Caps Lock or Scroll Lock keys even if you had turned them off at the time of last shut down

You can force their behaviour in the following manner:

1) Open Registry Editor

2) Navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard in the left pane if you want to change the behaviour for the currently logged on user



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OR

Navigate to the key HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard in the left pane if you want to change the behaviour for all users



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3) Double click the InitialKeyboardIndicators option in the right pane and choose from the following values to force the keys behaviour:

a) To turn all keys off – 0

b) Turn on CapsLock – 1

c) Turn on NumLock – 2

d) Turn on CapsLock and NumLock – 3

e) Turn on ScrollLock – 4

f) Turn on CapsLock and ScrollLock – 5

g) Turn on NumLock and ScrollLock – 6

h) Turn on all keys (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock) – 7



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4) Close registry editor

5) Restart your PC for the changes to take effect