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This is in response to my earlier post..
After some digging around I found a backdoor way.
Maybe this will help someone else ...


:ToggleNumlock.cmd
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@echo off
setlocal
set _prompt=%1

:: Create the VBS script with an echo statement and chain with colon:
echo set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") : WshShell.SendKeys "{numlock}">%Temp%\Numlock.vbs

:: Runs the vbScript:
FOR /f "delims=/" %%G IN ('cscript //nologo %Temp%\Numlock.vbs') DO set _string=%%G

:: Delete vbScript:
del %Temp%\Numlock.vbs

You can then save this .vbs file so you don't have to create it whenever you run numlock.cmd.

By the way, I think you should have posted this on your original thread.

BTW Fawers, I did consider posting on orginal post but after so many overwhelming responses I decided to repost.
So I quess you never read my orginal post or just didn't know the answer...

You're right. After so many replies, it sure is better to create a whole new thread so it can gather more and more replies.
I am so sorry for my naiveness.

Dos_Probie wrote:BTW Fawers, I did consider posting on orginal post but after so many overwhelming responses I decided to repost.

Surely you can't be serious.