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I've got a Dell notebook. All of a sudden, the number keys have become disabled. How do I re-enable the number keys? Thanks for any and all help.

hrdwareguy

Perhaps if you were a little more vague.......

but seriously, what Dell notebook do you have? When did this first happen? What were you doing before it happened?

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Cynthetiq

Let me try to guess.... number keys on the top row? number keys on the kepad in the 10 key configuration?

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I'm wearing my foil cap and was quickly able to determine that it is all microsoft's fault!

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Bill O'Rights

My guess is Cheeto dust has accumulated between your keys, rendereing them useless.

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Xepidemic

haha cheeto dust!

maybe your num lock got disabled by default. check bios settings

Dav

If its a number keypad on the side of the keyboard, have you checked that "numlock" is on\off?

Flyguy

I had a similar thing happen to me a section of the keys on the left side of the keyboard were disabled. Granted, I dropped an object there and the keyboard was rendered useless and I got a replacement keyboard for $15. Maybe that's it.

Dredd2099

im guessing the 'numlock' button as well
as the culprit