Re: Microsoft Natural Egonomic Keyboard 4000 by billjones99
billjones99
Wed Jun 25 14:26:04 PDT 2008
Wow, yes that was it. I found the little F-Lock key next to the F12 key.
It's a toggle key. Toggling it turned on the light on the keyboard for the
"F" indicator. Must have hit the key and turned it off without noticing.
Thanks!
--
Bill
"Cathy Moya [MS]" wrote:
> Yeah, it's the F-lock key thing. Look for a key on your keyboard that says F
> Lock. When it's toggled ON you get the F1 keys like edit and refresh, and
> when it's toggled OFF you get the alternate keys like undo and open file.
> One some keyboards you can see a little pop up near the clock in the
> taskbar. On others you have to look at the light on the hockey puck
> transceiver. I can never remeber which state is on or off, and on my home
> keyboard I have to toggle it to get my print screen working, so I usually
> just flounder around a bit until I get it to the state I want. ;-)
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> --
> Cathy Moya
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> "billjones99" <billjones99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:79143A63-3620-4300-9E8A-1479F702C96F@microsoft.com...
> > This is a USB keyboard. I've had this keyboard for about 9 months now. A
> > few days ago, I noticed that some F keys were malfunctioning. For
> > example,
> > F2 in Windows Explorer or Excel no longer allows me to edit a file name or
> > Excel entry. And F5 does not refresh but instead presents a file open
> > window.
> >
> > I searched out installed the latest driver but this did not help the
> > problems.
> >
> > I tried having the keyboard controlled by the BIOS and by the OS (BIOS
> > setting). Didn't matter which setting I chose and made no difference.
> >
> > I have plugged in a PS2 keyboard for testing. It does not have any
> > problems
> > and the F2/F5 keys perform normally.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>