How to disable on-screen notification when pressing Numlock?

[sorcerer]

Hi
So I’ve got a Dell XPS8930 with Win 11 and I get an irritating on-screen notification whenever I press the Numlocks key. How can I disable it? I’ve been through all the Settings menus.
Tx for any help.

[Bastet]

Are you using a third party keyboard? I know Logitech Setpoint has onscreen notifications like that.
Can you provide a screenshot/photo of the notification?

[sorcerer]

No, I’m using the keyboard that came with the PC;
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[Bastet]

What’s the make & model of the keyboard (if not Dell)?
Have you checked under the BIOS for keyboard notification settings?
Do you have the Dell Peripherals manager installed? If yes then check there. If nothing then you may have to uninstall this to remove the notification.

[sorcerer]

There’s no make or model on the keyboard. I swapped it for the one off the old unit, also a Dell XPS, and got the same thing. This is new in Win 11, compared to Win 10. I don’t know how to check the BIOS, please explain. I’ll come back to you about the Dell Periperals manager, probably tomorrow.

[Bastet]

Usually there’s a key you need to click as soon as you see the Dell logo - this can be F2.

[Bastet]

Usually a notification like that is due to third party keyboard software like Logitech’s Setpoint/Options software.

[sorcerer]

OK, I’ve got another keyboard , so I’ll try that tomorrow - it’s a bit late now.

[Rustys]

Here are two links to look at see if they help.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-can-i-turn-on-the-function-keys-indicator-on/c7022311-638c-4d77-8347-cbf63d839297

https://www.digitional.com/how-to-show-on-screen-alerts-for-caps-lock-in-windows-11-10/

[Rustys]

There are two links the one stating Redirecting is to the Microsoft with instruction on how to fix and for some reason it shows as that.

For the link that did show properly did you look at the steps for Windows 11 that are further down.

[sorcerer]

OK, maybe I missed something. I’ll have another look at it.

[sorcerer]

So I thought I’d update on the current status. I got a reply from Dell which was a youtube video basically saying to turn off the keyboard toggles, which was already off, and turn off another setting. Didn’t work.
They offered to remote access my system but I’ve deferred that for the moment, I hate that stuff on my system, who knows what they could do.
I’ll have another look at the link above tomorrow.

[Rustys]

Sounds like a plan and I have never trusted anyone that would remote into my system.

Another thing that you can try is creating another user to log into and see if it happens there.

[sorcerer]

OK, so I tries the links shown above. The first one, I got the same result as the OP which is that the Screen Configuration link doesn’t show so it doesn’t work.
The second link duplicates the Toggle key link which I’ve already disabled, and that doesn’t work either. It’s the same as the Youtube link which Dell sent me. I may try the TrayStatus program at some point, I suppose.

So I think we’ve hit a dead end, unless anyone else has any ideas.

[Rustys]

Do you have the TrayStatus installed?

What keyboard are you using?

I had a multimedia keyboard once when I got the system, they installed some software that I had to get rid of that did that.

We can always use the Minitoolbox and get a list of installed programs which may reveal what needs to go. Which is up to you.

Download MiniToolBox and save the file to the Desktop. Right click on the file and select Run as Admin

Close the browser and run the tool, check the following options.

List Installed Programs

Click on Go.

copy and paste the contents of the file called MTB.txt or attach the file to your next post.