If you take a look at your laptop's keyboard, you'll notice that the top row keys have icons printed above, with "F" and a number, like F1, F2, and so on, below each one. These are known as function ...

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 ...

Is the F5 key not working correctly on your Windows 11/10 PC? The F5 key is typically used to refresh your desktop or Explorer or reload a web page. However, some of our readers reported that the F5 ...

Enabling hotkeys -- also known as shortcut keys -- on your Toshiba laptop computer makes your business more efficient. Hotkeys let you and your team quickly launch favorite programs and business ...

The function keys on your keyboard are the most powerful computer tools that you're not using. We're going to fix that. Almost every computer keyboard has a row of function keys at the top, but it ...

The keyboard is one of the most important devices of your computer, allowing you to give commands for the different operations you want to perform. Most keyboards these days come with 104 alphanumeric ...

In fiddling around with Sublime Text 2 today, at one point I stumbled upon a command that needed F2 and F3 keys to be executed. I remember I once heard about a Mac app that let you easily toggle ...

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The Num Lock key is included on some computer keyboards to change the functionality of the number keys, enabling more functions and shortcuts to be built into the keyboard. In the same way that Caps ...