The Function key allows the user of a business laptop to access additional functions for dual-use keys. It commonly controls hardware settings like brightness or volume. It's generally at the bottom ...

For almost every PC or Mac user, a keyboard and either a mouse or a trackpad are more than enough to navigate these systems without too many problems. In fact, it might be a bit too easy — people are ...

The "Fn" key on a Dell toggles the multimedia keys on and off. On some models, you must press "Fn" to activate these multimedia keys, but the keyboard operation can be changed on the Dell PC so that ...

You may have never realized it, but you don’t necessarily have to settle for the keyboard defaults that you get on your laptop out of the box: If you want different keys to trigger different actions ...

The function keys, or F keys, on a computer keyboard serve as a line of shortcut keys that invoke various actions and commands in software applications. Located across the top of the keyboard, labeled ...

Running Windows on your MacBook isn’t uncommon, but running it on a new Touch Bar MacBook Pro has its own set of challenges thanks to the removal of the function keys. Luckily, a trip through your ...

Even if you’ve used the Mac for decades, I suspect you have never fully understood the Fn key. Not helping is the fact that Apple sometimes calls it the Function key, but all Mac keyboards already ...

I have a Toshiba laptop, about 3 years old. I had some work done on it and when I got it back, the function FN key which works with certain commands on the pf keys would not work. Now I cannot change ...

My (slightly old) Toshiba Satellite has the Fn key placed between left Ctrl & Alt, where a Windows key would normally be. The Fn key is used in key combinations to control video out, lock the laptop, ...