You truly are a service to the community.

HA! THANK YOU SO MUCH for the help!
I tried everything, then tried typing 36c2 into Google, and your blog came up. It’s the Scr Lk button that you have to push, by the way (^^)

LOL

Can’t thank you enough.

I cannot believe this happened………thanks for all your help. glad to have the n40bers g6ne when 5 ty*e!!!!! I felt stupid. good site.

btw……..it is the scroll lk key causing you trouble.

LOOOOL no comments…u won’t believe i found this post on google because of this number lock Lol thkx a lot for the Src link tip

Than2 y64!

phew! the bloody cat walked all over my keyboard and put the number lock on…all fixed now!

Much Thanks!!

Oh my God! I thought something horrible was wrong with the computer. All fixed now. Thank you!

Haha my cat walked on my keyboard too!

Thankyou so much

Don’t ever delete this blog entry. Everything works fine now! Thanks so much!

You are a live saver. What a lucky search.

I actually found this by accident, I was messing with alt code and left num lock on and thought it would be funny to try to type ‘how can i fix this’ and found this…

i spent 2 full days wondering what was wrong with my laptop until my search brought up this entry. everything is perfect now. Thank you.

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What 5f y64 3a*t6* d6esn’t have scr633 36c2+ 05ne d6esn’t beca4se 5ts a 3a*t6*! *3ease he3*

What if yourlaptop doesn’t have scroll lock, my on\one doesn’t because its a laptop! please help

My cat walked on my laptop and pressed some keys but i never would have guessed it was numb lock! thanks so much for this post like 2 posts only came up on google! :O

B3ess y64r heart.

Thanks so much for such an informative page.
MMMMM

dough thanks this is awsome

I really didn’t know what to do !! you saved my brain. thank you

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ok i got it to work guys. you gotta hold shift and then hit the scrlk/numlk button.

Yesssssss! Just sussed it out. If none of the above work, try the Fn button and NumLk on your laptop!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I didnt expect typing that into google would work ^_^

stupid nobbs thanks guys

Kelsey… this is truly hilarious.

I am totally saving this. My cat is always up here when I’m at the computer.

Sarah!!! Number 24!!! Thankyou!!! I’M SOOO HAPPY! I thought my laptop would never be cured!! None of the rest above work!!! I’m totally loving this site noww!!!

THANKYOU So much you saved my rp

thank u so much my 1yr old thought it was funny pressing the keys on my laptop and i had no idea how to get the number lock off, so thank u greatly!

NUMBER 24!
thankyou soooo much!

Robert, thank you SO MUCH!!!! The shift addition was what I needed to see. Mine was from my cat walking on my keyboard. WHEW!!!!

THANK YOU SOO MUCH! I’ve been trying to figure this out for hours now, & then i went on google and looked it up with the numbers & all & found this! THANK YOU! Mine worked by pressing the Num Lk at the top row of my laptop’s keyboard btw.

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Thank you number 24 , you are my life saver !!!!!!!!

omg thank you soo much i had this roblem just naw + proppa got scare but i pressed Fn+Ins on my laptop and it came back haah all this just because my little labrador puppy walked on my laptop

Thankyou so much All I had to do was click my “Num Lk” Button!

Hilarious! This is probably one of your most popular posts now!

N40ber 36c2 5s 6n, h6w d6 5 t4rn 5t 6ff/

Numbers lock is on, how do I tun it off?

So cool that I typed this in and found this blog

Ok on my acer lap top I had to push and hold the “Fn” button on the bottom left side while also pushing the “NumLk” key

LEGEND!!

thank u so much! My 2 kids were pressing all of the buttons & I was going crazy trying to figure it out.
Cheers

Thanks #24 – like an idiot I was trying to press the letters “F” and “N” + the number lock key. If anyone else is as foolish as me – look on the bottom of the keyboard for the “FN” button and hold that down and press the number lock button “F11″ on my laptop. I’m back in business – thanks a lot !!

OMG TY TY SO MUCH FN + SCROLL LOCK WORKS

THANK U SO MUCH PRESSING FN + SCROLL LOCK WORKS ^_^

Thankyou so much this is a great idea am so happy you decided to post this and the FN button worked a treat after 2 hours of me turning my computer on and off i should have just googled it

thanks so much for the person who told me how to unlock it on an acer laptop…..great

THANK YOU!

This help was invaluable. The switch happened when a microsoft tech was fooling around with my computer on a remote . . . but the regular techs at microsoft don’t have the fix! You all saved my bacon . . . May the good fairies of cyberspacia come to your rescue everafter . . .

Oh my gosh, thank you. Never letting the cat get near my keyboard again!!! And happy to be able to type this!!

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oh dear. SANNAA, I will try to get someone smarter than I am to decode and will send help asap.

FYI, “someone smarter than I am” is my sister or my mother. Whoever responds first.

[...] anyone very tech-y is reading, could you please just click HERE and help a person in need? It’s an old post from the time when I got my num lock stuck and, [...]

Oooooh no. Don’t look at me. I’m bookmarking this post so that I don’t ever have to hurt my brain looking for ways to unlock the scary number codes when they invade my laptop. All I got out of poor Sannaa’s message was “Please help” (although in my head, because of the number code, I hear a pitiful little voice saying “Peese hep! Peese hep!”). I’m sending positive thoughts and feeling otherwise fairly useless.

Sannaa’s message decoded:
“Help me pleaseee! I beg you my microsoft numbers changed dont no what a fn button or scroll lock button of anything please help me now my microsoft has locked itself as well please help me A.S.A.P.”

I don’t know if I can help you, though, Sanna. Are you using a laptop? Are you using an external keyboard with it? Do you have keys labelled with any of the following: “fn” or “Scr Lk” or “Num Lk” or “Ins”?

Give us more info and maybe somebody can help you.

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Many many thanks for your help in putting on the blog I thought my husband has broke the computer by practicing his computer course. lol
Held Fn ans ins Num LK on my e system. brilliant.

u no i had a heart attack wen this happened i had 2 use the slow laptop instead and i just went craqzy!! thankyou so much for this blog! its likee google understood me lLOL nywais 4 me scrll lok etc dint work annd for the laptop all u have to do is that there is a butoin next to ctrl called fn whidch is beside the windows button and the alt button and press AT THE SAME TIME for scroll numm lock on your top right hand corner of laptop next to insert and delete.
is seems myna when the problem is fixed but wen it isnt it really can casue trouble. thankyou again for this bloggggg i can now right mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm without it bein 00000000000000000000 LOL xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Any 06re 5deas+

He3*!!

Tan5a
‘b5gger s5gh’

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Hey!!
what do you know!

It only took me 6 min to work it out with your help!
Thank you.

This is what I did for those of you who read every blog and still were clueless as I was (I won’t be suprised if I am alone in this – ha ha) but here goes.

I have a Presario laptop.
My scroll lock button/ num lk button is on a 2nd function.
To access the 2nd function ‘FN’ button on my laptop is located at the second from bottom left (next to left ‘cntrl’ key).

***Hold down the ‘fn’ button and press the highlighted scroll/num lk key to disarm.***

A good indication of the number lock button being a second function button (as in you need to press the ‘fn’ button to access these functions) are when they are bracketed. *triple sigh – I am feeling so clever (not)*

Brilliant site! It saved me hours of trying to find where I store the manual (probably left it in another country to boot) and hours of reading. Thank you Holy mama!

Tania
*quadrupal sigh*

Obviously different computers have different settings so don’t get give up. This blog gave me a starting point to try and figure out which combination of keys to get my computer free.

On the hp EliteBook 8440p and hold down the ctrl alt then hit scroll/numlk key and you’ll be free.

Thanks for creating this blog otherwise I wouldn’t have had a clue where to start.

Thank so much for this. My baby whacked all the buttons and i thought OMG it’s wrecked!! I typed how to fix in google and had a good laugh at all the posts and the fact that i could actually figure out what was suppose to be written lol.

Thanks Sarah no24 worked for me x

So I tried everything on this blog but nothing worked but I decided to give it one more try before I gave up. Just go to start, program, accessories, on-screen keyboard and push the numlock button there and that solves the prob well it did for me anyway! thank god…….

Thank-you – today you are my angel!

Thanks for the blog and thank you commentors! “fn” button plus the num lk key worked like a charm. Cheers

okay, so i have a laptop and you have 2 press the FN button, and for everyone that couldnt find tat button (like me) its by your space bar on the left. its in a square.

ok if, like me, none of the above worked, try shift F11 or ctrl F11 or alt gr F11 — one of them worked on my laptop but I don’t know which because I tried all of them one after another! x

thank you!!!! 3 year old attacked my laptop; this worked!

Alt + Num Lk.

Thank you so much! You really are helping so many people, you’ve basically saved several lives! Sleep happily!

THANK YOU!! Tried every thing but number lock…

OMG i luuuvee u haha..:P

Rose you are a life saver. I have spent the last three hours turning the computer on and off getting very frustrated so thank you thank you thank you.

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LOL you’re a lifesaver once again!!! i was just about to freak out when i randomly typed this on google. thanks for saving me time

and for those still struggling, fn (a key on the keyboard…for my lappy it’s a button saying Fn in blue color and it’s at the bottom of the keyboard) + Numlock or NumLk (which is on the top of my keyboard) does the trick. Some of you guys might just have to press numlock button.

Than2 y64 very 04ch!