Re: numlock

["J S" <vervoom at hotmail dot com>]

> I Googled for "numlock off" and the first page had several 
> promising-sounding hits with instructions on how to force Windows to boot 
> up with NumLock off regardless of how the BIOS is configured.
>
> The simplest solution (don't know which versions of Windows this will work 
> with) was to add a line to c:\config.sys that looks like "NUMLOCK=OFF").

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately our users' boxes are locked down 
(they're on XP) so they wouldn't be able to edit that file. I was really 
looking for a way to do this from the XFree startup script or configuration 
anyway.


> > Sorry to come back to this again, but I have a lot of user faults reported 
> > due to this problem. Our users' boxes boot up with the numlock key on so 
> > this causes some confusion when they are told they have to switch the 
> > numlock key off before starting XFree. Is there anything I can do to 
> > switch this numlock behaviour off without user interference?
> >
> > JS.
> >
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