Fusion and the Imac numeric keypad

[mreg376]

While Windows programs seems to work just fine (or even better than fine) in Fusion, they do not recognize my Imac keyboard's numeric keypad. I have to use the keyboard number row. Is there a setting I've missed?

Thanks.

 

[Mr. Zarniwoop]

Sounds like Num Lock is off, important to PCs and essentially irrelevant to Mac OS X.

It's not super consistent across Macs, but you need the keyboard to generate an honest-to-goodness Num Lock keypress. I've seen it as Command-Clear, Clear, and even F6.

Or, if that fails, you can always use the on-screen keyboard. In Windows XP:

Start > All Programs > Accesories > Accessibility

Click the "nlk" key with your mouse and then close the on-screen keyboard. Numeric keypad should work.

 

[steveza]

You can set it to be permanently on in the Windows registry: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154529

 

[mreg376]

Sounds like Num Lock is off, important to PCs and essentially irrelevant to Mac OS X.

It's not super consistent across Macs, but you need the keyboard to generate an honest-to-goodness Num Lock keypress. I've seen it as Command-Clear, Clear, and even F6.

Or, if that fails, you can always use the on-screen keyboard. In Windows XP:

Start > All Programs > Accesories > Accessibility

Click the "nlk" key with your mouse and then close the on-screen keyboard. Numeric keypad should work.

The Clear key did it. Thanks!