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February 27

Can I disable the number keys on the right side of my keyboard?

It's too easy to forget exactly where the arrow keys are and end up typing zero when all I want to do is move, or worse, on one web site, zero makes the page really, really small.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 23:15, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Use the numlock key. 196.50.199.218 (talk) 07:51, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't seem to do anything.18:40, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

What are you "wanting to move"? The number pad doesn't normally "move" anything. Do you have arrow keys on your kb? Are you using Windows or Mac? Close your browser completely, reboot. Try again, you'll get there in the end. MinorProphet (talk) 19:17, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Windows. Oh, yeah, Mac keyboards would be different.

In the case of the web site, I'm trying to scroll right or up or down. I just now corrected something and had to move the cursor to the end of a sentence to continue typing. And then I had to make a correction and move the cursor back.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:35, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On the off chance this was Windows related I went to a Windows help site too, and this is what they said.

Go to Windows Settings > Select 'Ease of Access'

In the left menu, find and click 'Mouse' from the left pane

Make sure 'Mouse Keys' is turned ON.

Seems to have worked but turns some stuff blue. I hope that's not a bad thing.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:47, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That ain't necessarily bad - ♪ ♫ Kertwanggg! "Woke up this morning, feeling a little bit blue..." ♫ MinorProphet (talk) 12:40, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's always the scroll button on your mouse, but maybe you don't even have one... It is entirely possible to control Windows with just a keyboard - I have actually wowed a number of clients [ie stunned jaw-floor interface] with this ability - but you may be barking (as they say) up the wrong tree. See Table of keyboard shortcuts. MinorProphet (talk) 17:59, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just do what I do out of habit and learning something new is too confusing.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:31, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So why bother asking anything at all on the ref desks if you are not prepared to learn? Go and procreate elsewhere and stop wasting our time. MinorProphet (talk) 14:09, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

LOL Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi 18:27, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

chill.Rich (talk) 21:42, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

chill out, Esdras.21:43, 6 March 2025 (UTC) Rich (talk) 21:43, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good try, only 11 more to go, but I chose my WP username before I realised that I was named after one of the major prophets, and don't confuse me™ with my old mates Dan, Zeke or either of the Izzies (much improved after Ch. 40 imho). You may call me Jez. We are only termed "major" prophets because more of our scribblings have been preserved than those of other ancient prognisticators. See Julius Wellhausen: "The element in which the prophets live is the storm of the world's history" etc. Thus I am named after the best-known prophet of doom and gloom: so woe, mofos, and no mistake. My religiously blinkered parents just think I'm a bit negative, and still don't get why I'm on a bit of a downer after their combined 170 years on this earth. Astrology helps, as the ancients knew. MinorProphet (talk) 22:25, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A bit infra dig for the computing reference desk/ - but you could cut out a piece of thin cardboard a bit longer than the keypad, bend down the ends, and insert it over the keypad so it is held in place by the gap round the keys. ;-) NadVolum (talk) 19:16, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Or, purchase a new keyboard that doesn't have a number pad on the side. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 18:23, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm trying to not spend money.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:11, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yo, Vchimpanzee, MinorProphet answered you above too though? Sup? Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi 19:52, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was hoping for a simple solution and I found one, although it seems to have introduced new problems. Please do not criticize if I don't want to do anything complicated.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:18, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For Windows: Remapping 101: How to change your keyboard key output. Also AutoHotkey will let you map keys to arbitrarily do basically anything you want. One of those "things that should come pre-installed as part of Windows". --Slowking Man (talk) 23:57, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not feed the trolls. Guilty btw, yer honour. MinorProphet (talk) 22:25, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]