This "amazing" technology is called "Action Keys Mode", and the good news is that it is very easily turned off to get your laptop back to working the standard way of having to press the fn key. By default you do not need to press the (fn) key to get function key functionality.Įxample: If you press F5 (even in a browser window) it turns the backlit keyboard on and off, rather than refreshing the browser. Not sure what those pesky engineers at HP were thinking when they decided to change the default way the function (fn) keys work on the newer HP ENVY laptops. Go to HP Customer Support - Software and Driver Downloads, identify your computer, and then look for keyboard drivers. Well, except for one little thing that drove my crazy. If pressing any of the function keys does nothing while the rest of the keys are working properly, you need to replace the function key driver. Just got a new HP ENVY 15 and so far I love it.
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