numlock

[J S]

>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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