Keyboard ~ Number Pad Disabled
No commentsOn my Mac G5 with OS X 10.4.10 my keyboard’s number pad stopped working in most applications, like Firefox for one. As annoying as it is to lose your number pad, I finally found the solution.
In short I pulled up spotlight and searched for the following 2 files:
Both are located: /Users/Library/Preferences/
- com.apple.systempreferences.plist
- com.apple.universalaccess.plist
.. then I renamed them, respectively:
- com.apple.systempreferences.plist.BAK
- com.apple.universalaccess.plist.BAK
.. and then rebooted the machine.
One other suggestion, although it did not work for me, but may work for you, is to hold down cmd + clear button for 5 seconds. Another thought is to check your accessibility settings for your keyboard.
Thursday, December 27th, 2007 at 3:08 pm and is filed under My Mac Findings. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
