Enable Num Lock on the Windows 10 Lock Screen [Tutorial]

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A relatively common issue being faced by some Windows users, is finding that their Numeral Lock key or Num Lock is not enabled, is turned off, not working or inactive on startup or reboot in Windows 10, Windows 8 or Windows 7. I researched this issue a bit and found these two possible solutions for the problem. One is a registry fix which may work in Windows 10/8/7, and the other is by disabling Fast Startup in Windows 10/8.

How to enable NumLock on the Logon screen and Lock screen in Windows 10
If your Windows account password or user name includes numerals, you might need to frequently use the numeric keypad to enter them. For that you need to enable NumLock, which may not on by default on your Logon screen/Lock screen in Windows 10. In this tutorial, we will see how to enable Num Lock by default. This trick will also work in Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7.

Num Lock not working on startup
For those who do not know what Fast Startup is, here is a little description. The feature is called Hybrid Shutdown. Windows 8/10 does this by shutting down, as far as closing the user sessions – but at that point, instead of continuing and ending system services, and shutting down Session 0, Windows then hibernates. This is called Hybrid Shutdown. How this works is that Windows sends out a message to running applications, giving them a chance to save data and settings. Applications can also request a little extra time to finish what they’re doing. Then Windows closes the user sessions for each logged-on user, and then it Hibernates the Windows session.

Windows 10 allows you to quickly sign in with a numeric PIN instead of a longer password. if you have a keyboard with a number pad, you can use that number pad to enter the PIN–after you enable Num Lock. Here’s how to enable Num Lock at boot so you don’t have to press the key every time.

This should be a lot easier to enable, or even be the default setting, considering Windows 10’s use of PINs. But shockingly, it isn’t.

You may have an option to enable “Num Lock at Boot” in your BIOS or UEFI settings screen to do this. However, we tried this and it just didn’t work, even when we disabled Fast Startup. So we found another way–it just takes a little more legwork.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba,Lenovo, and Samsung).