Help needed with scroll lock

amllradam

amllradam

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hi i was hoping that somone could help me with my scroll lock problem, i have just bought a cm devastator keyboard and mouse and the keyboard backlight is always off when i boot up so i looked to see if could change that. i found some information about regedit and have tried changing keyboard reg, both default and user and no joy i changed the code to 6 and i changed them to 2147483654 and nothing works has anybody got any ideas or can tell me what im doing wrong

many thanks adam
 
I have the same keyboard, i never found a solution to get it to auto on in Windows either, so I just gave up. It's not really a big deal pressing the scroll lock once a day though.
It was easy doing it in Linux though.

Edit: try changing the registry data value to 4.
 
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thanks for the reply and im glad that im not the only one that looked into this lol i tried setting the code to 4 and the keyboard stayed light all the way through boot up until windows welcome screen then it just loaded num lock and nothing else, thought you had cracked it but was kicked in the teeth agen lol. i know pressing scroll lock when pc switches isnt that big of a deal but my partner is a bit of a technophobe and also has a slight memory problem was just trying to make the keyboard transition as easy as poss for her that was all. when i boot all the settings in the default folder including the folders under default stay as i put them ie. 6 or 4 or the other long code but the current user folder keeps defaulting back to 2, me trying to help has now turned into a problem because its bugging me that i know it can be done but something is stopping it lol :mad:
 
I tried looking again this morning to see if there is a fix for this on windows, but every fix seems to be for Linux.
Have you tried the official drivers to see if there is an option for it? I haven't bothered with them.
 
no theres no such thing purely just p&p was worth a try though i have come across a exe file that switches scroll lock on then quits what you do is put it in your startup folder then it switches it on when you boot up but it came up with - are you sure you wants to run this box so i unchecked the box that said ask me every time but now it stopped working after that lol not sure what happened
 
i have managed to sort the .exe instead of it being located on my ssd which i dont know why it wouldnt work, maybe it was trying to load it to quick i dont know lol and moved it to my hdd and it has worked treat
 
scratch that just restarted twice and it hasn't worked, only worked once WTF! ed209 how do i do this batch file of which you speak surly such wizardry does not exist
 
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ok, I have done a little research in to this.

I have found some info on VBS scripts, I tried to make up the following below to turn on and off scroll lock.

I have opened up note pad and put the following in

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.SendKeys "{SCROLLLOCK}"

when you save it make sure you use the .vbs extension rather than the .txt it will get from a notepad file

I created this file, stuck it on my desktop and called it scroll lock.vbs

when I click on this the scroll lock light goes from not on to on up the top right of my keyboard.

this is the first time I have done this and I don't know too much but thought I would try it.

you can add this to your startup folder and it should come on when your computer turns on and runs this from the startup folder

I am using windows 7 here

just to add if I double click the file again it goes off
 
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thanks for your help so i did what you explained and the script works perfectly switches on and off, so i added it to my startup folder and nothing restarted several time and still nothing i think im just going to have to face facts that it aint going to work but god damn its bugging me lol
 
you can try and run it as a task at login.

go to start, all programs, accessories, system tools and then task scheduler

click on task scheduler library on the left and then right click anywhere on the right hand side and click on create new task

for the name put anything you like, click on triggers and then at the "begin the task" change to login and set for any user

click on the action tab and then new down the bottom left and add the script by clicking browse and then ok, it should run the file at each login
 
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ED209 i bow down to you, you are a living legend of pc wizardry that works perfectly
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glad it works and has sorted the problem, maybe others out there may find it useful if they have the same issue and keyboard.

wasn't sure if the script would work as its the first and last 1 I will do lol
 
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