HP 350 G2 Laptop.

[Dave Plowman (News]

Have one of these laptops. One thing about it drives me crazy.

It has a conventional keyboard. When typing a number I always use the number pad. Now it does boot up with number lock on, but somewhere in use it gets switched off. No warning LED, as some others have. And when number lock is off, you can end up inadvertently deleting text etc depending on what key you press, intending typing a number.

I've Googled to find out how to lock number lock. Plenty about setting it at boot, but nothing about keeping it that way.

It's possible I'm hitting the num lock key by mistake, but don't have this problem with any other keyboard I've used.

[Andy Burns]

If you turn on "toggle keys" under settings/ease of access/interaction/keyboard, it'll beep at you whenever you press one of the lock keys

[Dave Plowman (News]

Thanks. I'll try that.

[Dave Plowman (News]

It does now beep. But seems odd - not happening instantly. Perhaps that key on the board is iffy. I've already replaced the keyboard once.

[charles]

is there not an icon on the bottom right of the screen?

[Andy Burns]

Not a huge delay here, 1 or 200ms maybe?

I've known older HP laptops to have "oddball" USB filter drivers to handle the Fn+FKEY combinations.

[Adrian Caspersz]

Googling "windows 10 num lock on startup" found this

Surprising Microsoft make folks do registry changes for this, but then again what sane defaults have Microsoft ever got correct?

[Adrian Caspersz]

Hmmm, reads OP post/. Erm, ignore this.

[GB]

Does this help?

[Dave Plowman (News]

It does boot in number lock. But somewhere down the line in use changes. Of course it could be finger trouble on my part. But odd only on that keyboard.