Many people make use of number keypad more than numbers on top row of keyboard. But like most people I am sure you can’t press num lock key every time you start PC to turn numbers lock on. Sometime there is a BIOS setting that will allow you set PC to have numbers lock on when you start PC. Sadly this does not always work.

Here is a registry edit for Windows 2000 and XP that will force numbers lock to be on when you begin Windows. Before you do this ensure to back up registry by going to File and then Export in regedit.

Go to Start, Run, typing in regedit and press Ok it will open registry editor. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard key. Double click InitialKeyboardIndicators value on right to open it. If not then include it by going to Edit, New and then String Value and type InitialKeyboardIndicators for name of new value as shown.

You can then modify number under Value data to do any of the following:
0 = All indicators off
1 = Caps Lock on
2 = Num Lock on
4 = Scroll Lock on

Only put number and not the text after the number.