When we bought our HP Pavilion laptop, we had Best Buy's Geek Squad change this behavior in the bios so that the function keys behave as expected.
I would not recommend trying this yourself unless you really, really, really, really know what you are doing. My husband let the professionals do it. Karyn Campbell, Illinois USA, [email protected] Using WE 9.21 on HP Pavilion laptop running Windows 8.1 home premium 64-bit with Office 2013 and IE 11 as well as Acer netbook running Windows 7 home premium 64-bit with Office 2007 and IE 11 and Microsoft Windows Defender onAcer netbook as well as Macaffee Live Safe on HP Pavilion. Support the Illinois Council of the Blind at our GoFundMe page: www.gofundme.com/icb2015. _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
