How do I set Num Lock on as default at power-up?

[Ruaridh]

When I boot up my Pavilion 15 Notebook, Num Lock appears to set itselfon or off more or less at random;

and as this nasty keyboard does not have a light to display what state it's in, it's a matterof trial & error before I can enter numbers through it.

Time was, you could just edit the config.sys fileand put in a line saying numlock=on, and there you'd be.

What can you do now?

[IT_WinSec]

Hello,

Thank You for posting in the HP Support Forum.

Please, review these articles:

>> http://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Default-Numlock-State

>> http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03801890

Perform the necessary Windows Registry changes

Boot in BIOS/UEFI to change the Num Lock settings

[Ruaridh]

Thank you, IT_WinSec

Which do you recommend -

regedit

or 

Startup Menu > BIOS Setup 

?

[IT_WinSec]

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@Ruaridh wrote:

Thank you, IT_WinSec

Which do you recommend -

regedit

or 

Startup Menu > BIOS Setup 

?

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You are most welcome!

I would recommend you try both

[Ruaridh]

OK, IT_WinSec, so I tried both of them, but it did me no good:

1) I tried the regedit route as recommended by wikihow :
found InitialKeyboardIndicators already set to 2, so that obviously doesn't work.
But then wikihow goes on to say:
"this might not work because some computers will not override the BIOS.
If it doesn't work then restart your computer" -
and do the BIOS setup anyway, and it tells you how to
access Phoenix BIOS setup.

So obviously the Pavilion 15 is a computer that 'will not override the BIOS'

So 2) I tried going through the Startup Menu as set out in the support.hp.com document:
it tells me the BIOS type I have is Insyde, (so the wikihow instructions are pretty irrelevant);
and this BIOS Setup function nowhere has any offer of any Keyboard Features.

So I guess I'll justhave to live with the established fact that this is a nasty keyboard

[zerotax]

Same problem here. Registry key does not work and there is no option to change this in BIOS. I have this problem not only on my HP laptop but also on an Asus desktop. Remarkable that someone, somewhere, screwed up such a basic feature. MyWindows 10 machines use a PIN for desktop logn, so the first thing I always have to do is press NumLock.