mansol
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Can anyone tell me how to get my keyboard numberlock set to *on* at
startup? This used to be the case and then when I had to reinstall win95
it stopped being the case. The is set OK but I cannot find where in win95
to change the setting.
Geoffrey Thomson
startup? This used to be the case and then when I had to reinstall win95
it stopped being the case. The is set OK but I cannot find where in win95
to change the setting.
Geoffrey Thomson
Are you sure that the "Num lock" is set in the Bios setup ?
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In answer to Favard, my BIOS setup shown numlock as on. I thank michalowicz for his answer but unfortunatelt this does not seem to work. Is it important where I put the addition to the config.sys line?
No, it should not matter where you put it in your CONFIG.SYS. But try this anyway:
1. Make a backup copy of your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
2. Erase your autoexec.bat and config.sys (since you have back ups this won't do any damage)
3. add the line numlock=on to your new CONFIG.SYS (this will now be the only config.sys line)
4. re-boot your PC
See if this now works. If it does, you probably have a setting in your config.sys or autoexec.bat overriding your numlock.
5. Now restore your original CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
Tell me how this goes
1. Make a backup copy of your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
2. Erase your autoexec.bat and config.sys (since you have back ups this won't do any damage)
3. add the line numlock=on to your new CONFIG.SYS (this will now be the only config.sys line)
4. re-boot your PC
See if this now works. If it does, you probably have a setting in your config.sys or autoexec.bat overriding your numlock.
5. Now restore your original CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
Tell me how this goes
ASKER
Thanks michalowicz - I will try this and get back to you
mansol
mansol
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I have tried this and the problem still remains. The BOIS is set to numlock=on and everything is fine until win95 gets around halfway through its startup routine. Might the problem lie in win.ini or sys.ini?