MS Wireless Desktop Elite Keyboard F LOCK state

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The F-Lock is hard wired to be off when power is reset. The
only problem I have is when I want to access the BIOS I have
to turn the PC ON, press the F-Lock and then the F2 key all
within about 2 seconds or its too late. So I pit my right
hand on the F-Lock key and press the power button with my
left hand. As soon as I press the power and the keyboards
lights up, I press the F-Lock and then the F2.

BTW, F is supposed to mean function but it also could be a
shorter f-word.



"Harold" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:188a901c41b00$b541b9f0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
| Is there anyway to set the F LOCK to default to ON when
| the PC is switched on.
| It is most annoying to find the keyboard resets the FLOCK
| to off everytime the PC is restarted (even if I use
| Hibernate). I dont want my F keys to do fancy things, I
| want them to behave my Function key.
| This is a serious design defect on the part of Microsoft
| to not offer an option to default the FLOCK key.
| Seriously annoying - ruins an otherwise perfect keyboard.
| I found some registry hacks on a website which was meant
| to remap all the F keys to make them behave as normal F
| keys but it does not work.

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http://www.mvps.org/jtsang/flock.html

Try this.
Sitaraman

"Harold" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:188a901c41b00$b541b9f0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Is there anyway to set the F LOCK to default to ON when
> the PC is switched on.
> It is most annoying to find the keyboard resets the FLOCK
> to off everytime the PC is restarted (even if I use
> Hibernate). I dont want my F keys to do fancy things, I
> want them to behave my Function key.
> This is a serious design defect on the part of Microsoft
> to not offer an option to default the FLOCK key.
> Seriously annoying - ruins an otherwise perfect keyboard.
> I found some registry hacks on a website which was meant
> to remap all the F keys to make them behave as normal F
> keys but it does not work.