Hi all,

I just bought a new Windows 10 HP laptop because my netbook died. I 
don't remember which one exactly because the stores I went to were out 
of the couple I had in mind, so I'll have someone remind me tomorrow. 
This laptop looks like a Mac, the aluminum body with the HP logo where 
Macs have the apple. The touch pad also reminds me very much of the one 
on the Mac Books, and there's even no right windows key, so you have to 
use the ctrl+shift+F10 hot key.

Anyway, this laptop behaves like a Mac in that the F1 to F12 keys have 
special functions, like volume and mute. If you want F1 to F12 to behave 
in the usual windows way, you need to hold down the fn key. There are a 
couple of exceptions. For example, alt+F4 behaves like alt+F4, but in 
most cases, I need to hold down the Fn key to use one of those keys 
alone or in combination with something else (e.g., fn+ctrl+shift+F10). 
Aside from getting mildly annoyed, I don't like this because the F6 is 
mute, so when I'm in the throes of using my browser, I frequently mute 
speech. the solution is easy (i.e., press F6 again), but I seem to 
inadvertently mute, then hastily mute, often enough that the system crashes.

If anyone has one of these computers, how do you make F1 to F12 behave 
like F1 to F12 without holding down the fn key?

Ciao


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