Yes, exactly as the title says.
And I don't even know, if it is a screen-reader related issue or not, I have absolutely no idea what is causing it.
Tried to google for the answer, but just can't find an answer to my specific case and problem.
So here is how it happens:
I am using NVDA, and Windows 10, but this problem kept often occuring even while I used windows 8.1.
So, when I start, or restart my computer, everything works ok, num-lock is initially turned on, that is how I want it to be.
(I know how to initially activate/deactivate it in registry, there is no need for that)
Then, after some random time period, sometimes even after a full day or so, (I turn my computer totally off very rarely), and mostly after an idle period, while I am away from keyboard, aka afk, the mentioned problem starts happening...again, without doing anything at all, without performing any action or operation.
I guess we should 1st determine, if it is an NVDA-related issue, or a system-related one perhaps?
Just to explain why this bothers me so much:
In my favorite game WBL, which I spend the most of my spare-time with, one of the hardest, and most time-demanding activity is creating, aka writing, editing, modifying so called fight-plans.
In those fight-plans, which are, in my case, sometimes even over 20k characters long, the symbol /, along with numbers, is very, very commonly used, more times in every single line!
Now please imagine, that each time I press it while working on a fight-plan, the num-lock key gets deactivated, and unless I press num-lock again to reactivate it, next time I press / the mouse left-click gets triggered, which, depending on my current cursor-location, performs various, totally unwanted, and very annoying operations, sometimes even ruins my whole work, which is often a more-hours effort!
So let's say I took a nap, or ate my dinner, then came back to my computer and WBL, started constructing a new fight-plan, with many dozens of lines containing parts like 8/1/11, 4B/8/8, 5H/10/5, 1/1/18, etc, and each single time I press the /...phewww, believe me, it's annoying like hell!!!
So I always get so much pissed off...and yes, this issue, as far as I know by now, can ONLY be solved either by restarting the computer, or, as I lately found out, by restarting NVDA, (so yes, it is very likely a screen-reader related problem), but strangely, after exiting NVDA, the starting key-combination for it doesn't work, so I cannot restart it alone anymore, but only with a help of a sighted person!
There, this is my, very annoying issue...eagerly awaiting your hints and suggestions!