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Odd numlock behaviour
My numlock key stopped working and I can't seem to figure out why. It is not the usual case of the mouse keys accessibility feature: it is disabled and so is the convoluted shortcut that can turn it on accidentally. It is not a hardware issue either, other keyboards show the same symptom on this PC be it USB or PS/2. Same story in safe mode.
The exact behaviour is the following:
- inside bios: works perfectly
- windows login screen: stuck in state set by HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators
- logged in: stuck in state set by HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard\InitialKeyboardIndicators
Last thing I recall doing before I noticed the odd behaviour was setting up windows remote desktop protocol and sure enough google found several threads and a microsoft support article regarding the connection between remote desktop and numlock desync issues. Still reverting all changes and disabling remote desktop did squat.
I can force numlock into either state by editing the InitialKeyboardIndicators reg value, denying admin edit permissions and relogging. I can also toggle numlock via the on screen keyboard feature, even the keyboard LED responds accordingly. Still the actual numlock key remains non-functional.
I have autohotkey, logitech gaming software and keytweak installed but haven't touched them in months, no other software I can think of that has much to do with keyboard behaviour. What else... Running win 7 ultimate sp 1 with all updates, no sign of infections according to NOD. I am out of ideas, so is google. Any suggestions? :/
Last edited by nailertn; 16 Jul 2013 at 18:28.