On Windows 8, Num Lock is off after booting after Shut Down. I changed the value of HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard to 2, which works when fast startup is disabled or when I use restart.

How can I force Num Lock to be on before reaching the lock screen? Thank you.

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This setting can often be set in the BIOS. However, your Windows 8 installation might use UEFI instead of plain old BIOS to boot. In that case, you have to take another way to get into the BIOS. Here's explained how:

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