Tried to enable num lock key on bootup and now I'm locked out

mroy99 said:

After doing a hard reboot of my laptop, the error message about the num lock key went away and I was able to login. Need to know if leaving the settings about disabling fast start up are okay or should I undo?

Really don't want to deal with this anymore. Plus I'd like to find a way to keep my num lock key on unless I turn it off.

Leaving Fast Startup disabled is fine. Here is the tutorial here on Tenforums for the Num Lock key at sign-on.

Enable or Disable Num Lock on Sign-in Screen in Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials

And the one for Fast Startup enable/disable.

Turn On or Off Fast Startup in Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials

Read thru them both, and make sure all the proper steps were taken. It should not lock you out of your laptop.

mroy99 said:

Read through both and fixed what was needed but I did discover something else. On the tutorial for fast start up the "define power buttons and turn on password protection" screen shows a setting for "password protection on wakeup."
I've included a screen grab showing I am missing that setting. Would really like to turn the password protection off on wakeup.

@mroy99

Under Settings>Accounts>Sign-in Options, try changing this to Never. Sign off and back on. See if that does it. The tutorial is from 2015, last updated March 13, 2017. That was around the time of Creators Update release 15063, and those screens may have changed a bit in 16299 Fall Creators Update, MS moving some settings and options to other pages.

Turn On or Off Require Sign-in on Wakeup in Windows 10 User Accounts Tutorials



I have my Desktop PC set to Balanced Power, Hibernation and Fast Startup disabled, and that setting set to Never. Mine looks like this:

---

What version of Windows are you running?

Press the WIN KEY + R, type WINVER, enter to show.

mroy99 said:

That worked. Thanks so much for your help!

@mroy99. You're welcome. Glad it worked for you!