Talk:Num Lock

message: How about someone makes the table into more of a graphical one, instead of a mere list? Where the cells are arranged to represent the actual keys and whatnot.
--21:58, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Table 

message: How about mentioning the "bug" in the IBM BIOS implementation of NumLock? If I recall correctly, on a system that's using IBM BIOS (eg DOS) pressing 5 with NumLock off still sends "5" to the system. The only way to prevent this is to check the keyboard scan code and NumLock status in your own Interrupt 09H handler (Windows provides a high-level interface for using scan codes). Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 08:27, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  BIOS "bug" 

message: What is this supposed to mean:
"Num Lock is also used in standard BIOS for extra input."
Perhaps whoever wrote this meant something like the ALT-130 = é (etc.) feature,
but phrased it extremely badly? Or the CTRL-NUM LOCK feature which is supposed
to work like the PAUSE key (but does not work on my keyboard)?
195.35.160.133 (talk) 11:20, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is this supposed to mean? 

message: Does anyone know a way to disable the NumLock? (note I am not saying "a way to toggle the state")
As most (except most laptops) keyboards already have separate cursor/PgUp/Pg/dwn/Ins/Del/Home/end keys, the ability to make the numeric part to behave like them is not very useful and can be an annoyance (when some program or the user accidentally toggles the state). (also a support annoyance: User:"My keypad stopped working!" support:"Press NumLock" user:"Wow! It works again.") So is there a way to make the numeric keyboard to always work in numeric mode?
--Xerces8 (talk) 12:02, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disabling NumLock change? 

message: What is a 'clear key'? I think 5 is just a functionless key with num lock off. Acloi (talk) 21:35, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  5 with Num lock off 

message: Me thinks, its worth to mention an annoyance caused by BIOS which turned it ON at PC boot. This issue has been addressed multiple times
* by the authors of numerous NUMLOCK.COM utilities (for using NUMLOCK OFF in AUTOEXEC.BAT)
* then by Microsoft as MS-DOS 6.x was capable to turn in OFF by corresponding directive in CONFIG.SYS
* and finally by BIOS vendors, in late 1990 they includen CMOS setup option to disable original PC behavior with NumLock on at boot.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.140.240.108 (talk) 15:57, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No actual sane person, has ever been annoyed by numlock being turned on, by default. There is literally no point in even having numlock be off. (except on some, but not all, laptops)--98.128.229.118 (talk) 18:27, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Annoyance 

message: I don't see why this article is a stub, it does a good job at explaining and i suppose its should be a B or C class article instead. It has three paragraphs explaining its use and history and all that, along with a table explaining its effects and the IBM PC chart. It has uses and purposes and does well at them. Can anybody help out?  I don't know how or if to change it though so I thought I'd say here.
BonnetteBotnet (talk) 19:05, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  About this being a stub... 

message: Due to the degrading qualitiy of my notebook's keyboard, I'm using a seperate USB-connected keyboard for daily work. Sometimes, I manage to accidentally hit a Fn-Something combination which is considered equivalent to Num Lock. So far, I never found out the exact combination. The page's text also just says that there is one, but doesn't tell any details. Does anybody know it?
Luckily, I also have a real Num Lock key for switching off the respective mode.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.254.97.74 (talk) 18:14, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate key combination