Function keys on dell laptop
Congratulations to our 29 oldest beta sites - They're now no longer beta! This setting does not appear in the Windows Mobility Center on my system, so I needed to change the setting in BIOS by pressing F2 at boot no need to press fn F2, even when the keys behave as media keys in Windows. Question feed. Yufenyuy Veyeh Dider 1, 5 5 gold badges 11 11 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. Sign up to join this community. Unicorn Meta Zoo 7: Interview with Nicolas. Ideally this is possible without some kind of third party hotkey manager. Viewed k times. Hennes Subash Subash 9 1 1 bronze badge.
Solved: I just purchased and received a new Inspiron laptop. I've found several posts on here about the FN key, but none seem to be addressing.
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Solved: im trying to change the function keys so that f are the main use and the multimedia keys are on fn. Cant enter bios on restart of laptop.
Solved: what do the function keys DO on my Inspiron laptop?
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Gah, thank you for posting this! Ask Ubuntu works best with JavaScript enabled. With "Lock mode enabled" you can use F keys as Functions keys.
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Asked 7 years, 8 months ago. I accidentally pressed this without even realizing such a feature exists.

My problem is that I need to do this. One thing I did not like about my Dell Inspiron 15 Windows laptop keyboard was the behavior of the Function and Multimedia keys. From Whirlpool's KB article on the Dell Studio The media buttons are switched on by default instead of the F keys so to perform a task.
I use a Dell Studio i.
Just for reference, I have been using a Studio with Vista 64bit for the last 6 months. No 2 options as mentioned above, just an enable and disable option.
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This also works for my Lenovo Flex 2 Laptop. Hope this helps. Asked 10 years ago. It is much easier to do ctrl-esc than to mess around in bios.
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Unicorn Meta Zoo 7: Interview with Nicolas. Featured on Meta. This setting does not appear in the Windows Mobility Center on my system, so I needed to change the setting in BIOS by pressing F2 at boot no need to press fn F2, even when the keys behave as media keys in Windows.![]() With "Lock mode disable" you can use F keys as Media keys. I accidentally pressed this without even realizing such a feature exists. |
