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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
Nikhil, that doesn't help at all, you are just swapping one evil for another in that way. You are saying the only way to unbind it from the default, which is open help, is to rebind it to do something else, and only that other thing? That is equally useless. I am looking for a way to UNBIND F1 from any default or singular function. I want my F keys back!
Anyone else have a solution? Or has windows 7 condemmed my F keys to obsoletetion?
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I am looking to disable the window help function as well. I have a program that I have used everyday since 1994 that has always used the F1 to perform the same function. Now when I hit F1 the windows help pops up and I cant get around it to the intended function. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I thought that F1 has always opened help, since the days of Windows 3.1 over 15 years ago...
...are you saying you have a program that uses F1 for something else, and that program stopped working now that you're using it with Windows 7? If so, try running the program in compatibility mode for Windows Vista (or 98, 2000, or XP) and see if it behaves properly.
Windows doesn't control this, by the way: The F keys do whatever the program wants them to do. For example, F12 does absolutely nothing in most programs, but if you're using Office, that opens the Save box. Same with all the other keys. For example, F5 refreshes most web browsers, but it's used for something entirely different when you're in iTunes.
Windows 7 didn't cause the behavior you see, it's been this way for decades.
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