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by Carmella on November 12th, 2006

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What is the purpose of Num Lock?

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  • by looney on November 12th, 2006

    looney

    On early keyboards, the arrow keys, along with home, end, page up/down, were found only as secondary functions of the numeric keypad, and thus it was important to be able to easily switch the keypad between the two functions. Today's keyboards have separate buttons for all of these functions, so there's no reason to turn num lock off any more.

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  • by Mr. McClister on November 12th, 2006

    Mr. McClister

    Num lock enables the use of the number/arthematic symbol pad to the left.

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  • by spazmojack on November 12th, 2006

    spazmojack

    autorun in WoW


    it also lets you use the numberpad on your keyboard or some sillyness like that.

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  • by anonymous on November 12th, 2006

    anonymous

    I have no idea. Isn't it weird?

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  • by Esteban-- Smart ass Pumpkin on November 12th, 2006

    Esteban-- Smart ass Pumpkin

    so no one will steal them.

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