On Saturday, August 18, 2012 at 3:33:06 PM UTC-5, glee wrote:
> "(PeteCresswell)" <x...@y.Invalid> wrote in message
> news:35hv28tu2khro5ntv...@4ax.com...
> > Per J. P. Gilliver (John):
> >>1. Is it a USB or PS/2 keyboard? (I'd say try it on another computer,
> >>but since you've swapped "out" [how is that different from just
> >>"swapped"?] another keyboard, that is likely to be irrelevant.)
> >
> > USB and wireless.
> >
> >
> >>2. When you say it "doesn't work", what happens - nothing, or it just
> >>behaves as if Num Lock is off, i. e. it functions like the arrow keys
> >>and sixpack.
> >
> > With NumLock off, it behaves as expected: "3"==>PgDn, "9"==>PgUp,
> > "/", "*", "-" work... and so-forth.
> >
> > But with NumLock on, nothing seems to happen.
> >
> >
> >>3. When you say '"Num Lock On" dialog pops', that sounds like you mean
> >>something on screen: does this keyboard not have an actual Num Lock
> >>light (is it a wireless keyboard)?
> >
> > No, no NumLock light. I'm guessing that the dialog is thrown by
> > Microsoft's "MicroSoft Keyboard" applet or some related driver.
> Start> Control Panel> Accessibility Options> Mouse tab, make sure "Use
> MouseKeys" is not checked. Also click the Settings button, and uncheck
> the "Use Shortcut" box. Click OK all the way out. See if that corrects
> the problem.
>
> If that doesn't fix it, have you used a keyboard remapping utility, or
> manually modified the Registry to remap any keys? You may have disabled
> the NumLock key that way. Open Regedit and navigate to:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout
> If you have a "Scancode Map" value with associated binary data, you have
> done some sort of keyboard remapping.
>
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-05/3007.keyboardlayout.PNG
>
> Export (backup to a .reg file) the Keyboard Layout key, then delete it.
> Reboot.
> See if that fixes the Numlock key issue. If not, you can always import
> the saved .reg file.
>
> Further reading on remapping:
> http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2007/05/04/i-ve-hit-f12-for-the-last-time.aspx
>
> --
> Glen Ventura
> MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
> CompTIA A+
This really helped me, problem fixed. I had mouse keys turned on. Thank you very much, I had been looking for the solution for a while.