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Mouse Keys is one of Windows’ oldest — and often overlooked — accessibility tools: it lets you use the numeric keypad on your keyboard to move the mouse pointer, click, double‑click, drag and drop, and change the active mouse button without touching a physical mouse. It’s a small feature with...

For millions of productivity-minded users, the humble numeric keypad on Windows keyboards is an essential, time-saving tool—assuming it actually works when you need it. Whether for data entry, calculations, or even gaming macros, the numpad’s functionality in Windows 11 remains a critical...

Few things are more aggravating than sitting down at your Windows PC, ready to crunch numbers or enter data, only to find your numeric keypad stubbornly unresponsive because Num Lock is off—again. While Microsoft’s Windows 11 and Windows 10 are both mature, user-friendly operating systems, this...

My Num lock keep turning on Randomly. While I type something the numlock turn on automatically during typing. it uses U O key etc s forward and backward same for all keys for . make all my text spoiled and disturbed. its been since 8 months I reset and formatted window twice nothing got...

Hi, Hope I came to the right place. In 'windows 10' You have a option under power plan to select quick start , It works very well but,num lock key will not come on when pc starts up. Is there a way round this? Tried usual fixes ie 'HOTKEY LOCAL MACHINE USERS' etc, but I can't get it to work...

Num lock not responding on boot up. I have try all methods on fixing it from restart to reg any help will do.

Bought a new keyboard the other day, a qpad mk50. It's connected to the pc through a PS2 > USB adapter. The problem is that it sometimes disconnects for a second or two, and it can be turned on while the pc is off. So, the num lock led lights up if i press a button when the pc is completely...

Hello guys. I'm new here. I have problem with my Sony Vaio VPCEH3M1E FN keys. On Win7 it works perfectly but when i upgrade to 8.1, my FN keys stopped working. I can only use FN keys for mute, volume and NumLK / ScrLK. What about brightness and Display change (Expand to second monitor etc.)...

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I lost this function in the lower taskbar and the volume control blue line indicator on the lower part of my screen. I'm running Windows 7. How can I get it back? Thanks

I have a Pavilion dv-6 2155dx laptop. Windows 7. It's worked fine until recently. I have rebooted many times No change. The ON/OFF bell seems to work ok but the number pad does not work correctly. It does "strange" things now. Some keys do "something" and others do not as follows: /...

Describes about how to make Windows play an alert each time you press the Caps Lock, Num Lock, or Scroll Lock keys. More...

My Num Lock goes off when I shut down my computer and wont come back up until I press it

There is not a dedicated Num Lck key, so how does my brother turn off Num lck - when he has no idea how he turned it on in the first place. Sorry .. forgot to say ... it is a laptop (Toshiba Satellite) :razz:

Trying to help a friend out with his computer - we already checked the registry keys to ensure they were set to have Num Lock on at boot - and typically he has no issues with Num Lock. However when he opens Windows Live Email it turns off Num Lock. I tested to see if opening Windows Live...

I have tried to get the Num Lock Key to set on boot up to no avail. I have edited the registry and set the Initial Keyboard to -2 with no response. I still have to set it manually after boot-up. I also tried with the Total Idea Tweak 7 to set Num Lock on boot up with no avail. After boot up...

So far it is 3 users with the same issue. Users starts laptop and logs into WIN7 with no problems. User locks laptop with Window Key + L. User comes back to login and password failed? Had user stop on by to confirm it is not a capslock / numlock / etc.. error. User has to restart to get...

I use a Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop, 64-bit based. Since this laptop does not have signal lights to indicate if my caps or numlock is able, I have to rely on the small transparent popup that appears on the lower right of the screen. Eventually, that stopped appearing. And with the way i type i...

ps2 keyboard sporadically stops working Hi, recently I've encountered a weird problem: from some unknown reason my keyboard sporadically stops working, as if was disconnected, although the Num Lock led shines. Unplug and replug don't help, only reboot. Driver reinstall didn't help. Replacing...

Hi all. I've got a strange one here. So far it's stumped me and all the techs at CompUSa. MY numeric keypad does not work in any Microsoft Office program, nor does it work in Firefox or Google Chrome. Here's the tricky part...it works fine if I open the calculator, a notepad document, or use...