Numlock on a Laptop

I use a laptop day to day, and when I have it docked, I use a keyboard, that I turn numlock on. When I undock and start using my laptop again, numlock is on, and its hard to tell it is, about the only way I can is by typing and seeing that letters are turning into numbers. I think there almost needs to be an on-screen notification that numlock is on, or something, because I have been foiled by the numlock gods too many times, I couldnt login to VPN tonight for a while because it wouldnt take my password, well, it would, but I had numlock on. I guess I could make my passwords to be out of the range of the laptop numlock keys, right 🙂