F Lock

[Carl]

I have a key on my new MS Wireless keyboard labeled F Lock.
What do it do?

I never knew what Scroll Lock did.
But my new keyboard doesn't have that one.

Carl

 

[David Candy]

Those keys are mainframe terminal keys. Flock is MS new way of selling non windows compatable hardware - the hardware people only care about money not making products suited to windows. You'll notice scroll lock is under the pause key. The F-Lock key switches from on top of the key to underneath it - eg it toggles the pause key from Pause/Break to Scroll Lock, and Help to F1. Only office can understand the standard key layout. Pressing F-Lock switches to Windows compatable mode so the function keys work.

 

[Opinicus]

I have a key on my new MS Wireless keyboard labeled F Lock.
What do it do?

It toggles between the two sets of functions on the F(n) keys. The first set
of functions (Help, Undoo, Redo, New, Open, Close, Reply, Fwd, Send, Spell,
Save, Print) are indicated on the keytops and the second set (F1 thru F12)
on the sloping front sides. Unfortunately Microsoft chose to have the
keyboard start with F Lock in the "off" state, so you get the new functions
instead of the old ones when Windows starts up. I've seen several "fixes"
for this; none of them are very satisfactory save for hitting the F Lock key
automatically after Windows boots.

I never knew what Scroll Lock did.
But my new keyboard doesn't have that one.

Yes it does. It's on the sloping fron side of the "Pause Break" key to the
left of F Lock.

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Bob - You might want to take a look here:
http://www.mvps.org/jtsang/flock.html FWIW, I use the
http://www.mvps.org/jtsang/2gflockflip.zip version with my optical, wireless
natural and it works just fine. YMMV, of course.

--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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-----Original Message-----
I have a key on my new MS Wireless keyboard labeled F Lock.
What do it do?

I never knew what Scroll Lock did.
But my new keyboard doesn't have that one.

Carl


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Spelling error?

When you enter F Lock into the search engine at www.msn.com
it does a spelling correction to flock, at least on this
random bit generator it does. So if you want to know what
a duck is, there you go.
But you can tell search not to correct yor spelling which
was not wrong to begin with and then you will find out
more than you ever wanted to know about F Lock.
Well, probably more than you will get here.
Generally speaking, search is a good source of info.