Well, since I didnt want to page the IT Department, instead, I just wrote a program to handle my problem. Code around IT I always say. .NET 2.0, created a small program to watch keyboard strokes, and if NumLock is on, put a systray icon down there, lime green with a big N. Set it up to run when I login, so I should be good to go. The code is not pretty at all, so I’m not going to post it, but if someone wants to see, let me know and I will share, maybe you can even improve it 🙂
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Revenge on Numlock!
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Why not go one step further and have the tray app turn Num Lock off when you’re not docked?
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heh, duh…. didnt think about that, but yeah, Im not exactly sure how to tell if it’s docked or not, my first guess would be there is some registry setting or something. I will look into it 🙂
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code around IT…. Thats funny…
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actually early this morning I think I found the way to know if it is docked – using WMI.
Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure
If I just get a 10 back, then its not docked. If I get a 10, then a 12, its a laptop that is docked, I will probably incorprate this into my program.
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Hah, you like hacking, don’t you?
You can also handle the WM_DEVICECHANGE message and look for a DBT_CONFIGCHANGED parameter. That means something’s docked or undocked.
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yeah, kind of PITA to hook into that in c# though, Im thinking I will just shell out and call this
wmic SystemEnclosure get ChassisTypes
and if i see a just a 10, and no 12, then disable 🙂
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