The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Enable Number Lock by Default, Wake computer with Lid Instead of Power

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by seany187, Apr 21, 2016.

  1. seany187

    seany187 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    7
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I searched the threads and couldn't find the answers I needed. I tried contacting Dell Technical Support to ask the simple question and they want me to pay for a software warranty when they can't even confirm if it can be done. Alienware's customer service has gone to **** since Dell took over. Maybe someone here can help me.

    1. Is it possible to enable Num Lock (Number lock) on by default on the M17x R3. It's annoying to have to re-enable it every-time I reboot. I couldn't find the setting in the BIOS. Maybe I need to configure the Alienware software?
    2. Is it possible to have opening the laptop lid wake the computer from sleep, vs having to push the power button.

    Thank you in advanced!!

    UPDATE: I kind of did a work-around. I forced hibernation instead of shutdown when I close the lid using the Alienware software, which kind of solves both my problems.
     
    Last edited: Apr 21, 2016
    seany187, Apr 21, 2016
    #1
  2. danyune

    danyune Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    89
    Messages:
    673
    Likes Received:
    156
    Trophy Points:
    56
    1) Perhaps autohotkey to enable numlock when loading windows, look into that maybe

    2) You can set closing lid to do nothing, it just turns off the screen. Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but that's what I do
     
    danyune, Apr 25, 2016
    #2