Force CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock Keys Behavior Using Windows Registry

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Its a very common problem among Windows users. Whenever Windows starts, it automatically turns "CapsLock", "NumLock" or "ScrollLock" keys On at login screen even if you turned the keys off before the login or boot screen.

If you want to permanently change their behavior, then you can use following steps to do so:

1. Type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.

2. Now go to following key:

To change the behavior for currently logged in user:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard

To change the behavior for all users:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard

3. Now in right-side pane, change value of "InitialKeyboardIndicators" string value to any of following:

0 - Turn all indicators Off (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock)
1 - Turn CapsLock On
2 - Turn NumLock On
3 - Turn CapsLock and NumLock On
4 - Turn ScrollLock On
5 - Turn CapsLock and ScrollLock On
6 - Turn NumLock and ScrollLock On
7 - Turn all indicators On (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock)

4. That's it. Exit registry editor and restart your system to take effect.

Thanks to our active reader "Nitin Agarwal" for sharing this trick...

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The Swiftman

Looks very helpful, I am going to go do it now.
3v4n 7h3 h4xx0r

Cool article. How do you make those icons?
Nitin

Thanks vishal sir, its great honour for me to get my article published here.
thanks again.
gary

doesnt work for me, i change this exact key to the value of zero (which it was already on originally) and "num lock" is still on every time a user log's in :-(
Joris

Thank you very much, your "all users" information solved my problem!
Chris

on my windows 7 pro, i have the beep on for the caps but i would really like to have the little pop-up to show that the caps is on.
how do i change that, if i can?
Chris

on my windows 7 pro, i have the beep on for the caps but i would really like to have the little pop-up to show that the caps is on.
how do i change that, if i can?
VG

^^ Its shown by your multimedia keyboard software. If you got a setup disc with your keyboard, you can install the software to see the alerts.