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I am trying to figure out if there is some built in way to disable the built in hotkeys in windows 7 enterprise? For instance, when I hit F1 it pops up the help window in windows, or a new tab in firefox with firefox help, f3 opens search window etc. I use these keys for many other things, this is really a problem for me.
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IT' actually really simple if You have vista or windows 7. Just in start search bar write "mobility" and look in search results for " Windows mobility center". A window will open. find Fuction key in that and select "Function Key" instead of "multimedia"(or any thing else) and that's it.
THIS LOCKED MY F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 AND SO ON KEYS. I GOT THIS FROM ANOTHER WEBSITE FROM SOMEONE ELSE THIS SHOULD HELP YOU NIGTHER SMITTER
If your computer builder created a FnLock key (on my Asus computer, it's Fn-F7), you can lock the Function button on so it always works the way you want. If they didn't, then you're out of luck. Windows doesn't even know this is happening, because it's all done at a hardware level, before the keystoke command is ever "sent" to the computer. If your computer builder didn't design the system the way you desire, you should purchase another computer instead.
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how do u lock your FN button so it constantly does what we want. cuz that would fix all our problems
I have no hot key program running, I use windows 7 and everytime I hit F2 it turns off my Wifi.... it is incredibly annoying and I cant figure out how to turn it off, nothing said in this thread has helped, and it would be nice to get the stupid "f" keys to not have some built in function.. I cant even use Alt+F4 anymore to close a program, it just brings up the brightness control..
Anyone have a suggestion or an idea that will actually work?
And before someone says the same thing that has been said over and over in this thread, no the "F" keys in windows 7 are not program responsive, they have a built in function, and when you press it, it will do what that specific function.. F1 now changes my display type, instead of bringing up a help page, regardless what program I have running.. So please don't tell us that they don't do that, when they most certainly do.
mine does the same thing. SOMEONE HELP ME
okay. i play this game online and what the computer is supposed to do is auto disable the keys so i can use my f1 f2 f3 ff4 f5f f6 and so on . . but when i try to do it on my new computer it takes me to my battery options or whatever it is set as factory . how do i disable this?
