Turn ON/OFF Num Lock at Boot up in Windows

The NumLock key is usually only turned on before the user logged into the computer, this can cause problem for people that do not check the status of the NumLock key before typing their password. The default behavior can be changed with this setting.

1. Press win+R shortcut from keyboard to open Run dialog box.

2. Type regedit in the Run dialog box and press enter to open the windows Registry.

3. Navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard

4. Within the keyboard folder, you should have a string value named "InitialKeyboardIndicators" with a value of 0, 1, 2 or 3 etc. Below is the explanation of these values.

0 – Turn all indicators Off (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock)

1 – Turn CapsLock On

2 – Turn NumLock On

3 – Turn CapsLock and NumLock On

5. Now double click on “InitialKeyboardIndicators” and enter the desired value as per your requirement.