Microsoft has their own ideas of how the numeric keypad on your computer should work. Their default is for Num-Lock to be Off.

Possibly useful link:

https://www.howtogeek.com/244606/how...omputer-boots/

Also, you will find that if you press Shift and then a 0 on the numeric keypad, you will not get a 0. This is because Microsoft thinks that there are still people working who use the old DEC VT-100 cursor key functionality of the numeric keypad in 2024.