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| Thread ID: 54329 | 2005-02-09 14:16:00 | Need Help Getting Caps Lock On At Bootup | bloodthief (7187) | Press F1 |
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| 323009 | 2005-02-09 14:16:00 | I've checked the bios and there is no caps lock setting, only num lock. So I tried to set the initial keyboard setting in the registry to 3, so both num lock and caps lock will come on at bootup. I make the value change, exit the registry and reboot. When I go back into the registry the value has reverted back to 1 like it was before I changed it. I can't figure out why the registry is not holding the value I set. Any suggestions? | bloodthief (7187) | ||
| 323010 | 2005-02-09 15:03:00 | well you could use this app (www.rjlsoftware.com) which OS is this? |
gibler (49) | ||
| 323011 | 2005-02-09 16:35:00 | The OS is WinXP | bloodthief (7187) | ||
| 323012 | 2005-02-09 18:07:00 | there are two hives in the registry that hold this setting one that applies to that session only (temporary) and I suspect that is the one you are changing. Do a search of the registry for the key or data you are using, change the values on both sorry i cant remember which hive stores this setting between sessions. I have strick this before when setting custom registry settings and to overcome this user sessionmonly hive, I just search the entire registry for either the value or the key name. Remember always backup the registry before changing any key values |
beama (111) | ||
| 323013 | 2005-02-10 10:07:00 | The location in the registry if I recall correctly to do this is \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators OR \HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators I have no idea what the number to have CAPS LOCK on is, I only changed this so I could get NUMLOCK to be on at startup, that number is 2. 0 means all off, so just mess around with numbers between 1-3 but make sure to have this backed up before messing around. Kame |
Kame (312) | ||
| 323014 | 2005-02-10 10:26:00 | This PC World thread (forums.pcworld.co.nz) has more detail Sounds like you really want to change the values under HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT... |
gibler (49) | ||
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