NumLock under W2000 and XP

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

I wrote to David Thomas, the author of TameDOS, regarding the flashing
NumLock indicator that sometimes occurs when running Xy4DOS under W2000
and XP. His response is below. I don't have an answer to his closing
question---I haven't isolated the conditions under which the problem
arises---and haven't had time to test his suggested registry change.


Message from David Thomas:

"By default, Tame does toggle numlock in order to correct a problem with
Windows handling of the numlock. Perhaps this is causing a problem. It
may be disabled by setting a registry value.

Registry values can be effective system-wide, or only for specific users.

The key named HKLM\Software\TameDOS contains system wide values, and HKCU\Software\TameDOS contains
user overrides.

To disable the numlock toggle, select the user key or the system key, create a REG_DWORD value named
ResetNumlock and set it to 0.

If that does not help, I am willing to look into it. Can you suggest an approach that can reliably
duplicate the problem?"

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Martin J. Osborne
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