NumLock on HP Envy 17-1050ef

Does anyone know how to activate the num on the HP envy 17-1050ef key?  It doesn't seem like a NumLock on the keyboard and the numeric keypad is not activtated.

I found a solution (see below) but first I think that I must examine the solution proposed above.  First of all, I don't have the stuff of active quickweb and won't go to all the hassle of which allows him to see what is happening there.

Second, rebuild my system for what is obviously a temporary solution is one of the silliest applications that can bring a support person.  You don't have to be a genius to know that this will only fix this problem until it happens again. However, this is the type of the suggestion that I would expect of a person concerned only with their immediate "the resolution numbers" and with no long term interest in the customer satisfaction.

It's okay that HP "designed" the keyboard when it reports to the operating system as a 101 key keyboard normal.  In this case the OS assumes that it behaves like one, and that includes a double function - the keypad controlled by a num-lock key.

I did a little web search and find quickly found that the windows API includes a way to define the State of the Numlock.  This means there is a parameter inside the BONE, which reflects the State of the button, and also in now way does not provide the key on the keyboard class to change this fact.

More importantly, it means that the software can change the State of the key.  If some programs (like a game) you run could toggle the CAPS LOCK status.  ANY program can do that and it's perfectly "legal" because what they are doing is using the API that provides some Ms.  So surprise, software "reconfigure" the number pad by simply changing the State of the num-lock.  HP has not provided that some software could change the State of the numlock, and this could create problems for users, is one of their biggest blunders in the design of this keyboard.

To make our life more fun, it seems Windows 7 tries to "remember" the State of the NumLock key to stop and that he will restore this setting when windows is started.  "" This means that there is no hope for a restart in the config default OS fix this problem once the numlock status has been disabled.

In any case, I found another user in a thread on a forum Microsoft on this same question and answer it describes how to change the security settings on the portion of the registry where windows stores the current state when stopping down, if you are comfortable following these indications thirn (I have not yet tried) in theory This allows to set this registry value so numlock is always considered as WE at startup and windows cannot "remember" any other parameter (must some programs turned off)

The thread is here: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7desktop/thread/7da81412-d7bd-491b-98c9-027594d67232

Softpedia also has a program to set the State of the NumLock at startup http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Set-Numlock-State.shtml

In terms of being able to toggle the State of the numlock invisible, so you can "fix" things at the time where a program modifies the NumLock State, it is your solution

Copy the following text in Notepad and save it with a name as "numlock.vbs" running it will reverse the State press the NumLock within the OS.  NOTE that the name MUST end in. VBS this identifies as a windows script file and runs using the windows scripting host (WSH)

Set WshShell = CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")

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