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P: 4/18/2009 6:39:26 PM
isaku5 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,281 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005	A few months back, I actually purchased a new laptop. Everything is going well with one exception: several keys have four characters on them. My computer savvy friends and I have tried accessing the third and fourth characters by using 'ctrl' and 'alt'. So far, nothing has worked. I should point out that these characters are not needed on a daily basis, but would certainly expand my options. The laptop is an HP model with the Vista O/S . Any ideas??
Posted: 4/18/2009 6:39:26 PM

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P: 4/18/2009 7:17:54 PM
Kiwi725 Cut Rock Total Posts: 364 Last Post: 7/21/2009 Member Since: 2/10/2009	Check if you have the "Num Lk Scr Lk" key on the upper right hand corner of your laptop (I have a Sony Vaio laptop with an English keyboard and that's the key that I use to switch back and forth between different characters located in the same key).
Posted: 4/18/2009 7:17:54 PM

P: 4/18/2009 7:33:55 PM
isaku5 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,281 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005	Date: 4/18/2009 7:17:54 PM Author: RubyCharm Check if you have the 'Num Lk Scr Lk' key on the upper right hand corner of your laptop (I have a Sony Vaio laptop with an English keyboard and that's the key that I use to switch back and forth between different characters located in the same key). Thanks, RubyCharm, but I don't see either anywhere on the keyboard. The obvious answer would be to look it up in the Instruction Manual, but it has mysteriously disappeared.
Posted: 4/18/2009 7:33:55 PM

P: 4/18/2009 7:35:47 PM
Feralpenchant Cut Rock Total Posts: 427 Last Post: 5/21/2009 Member Since: 2/12/2009	Depending on what brand of laptop you have, sometimes there is a "function" key. It will only say "Fn" on it, and the lettering may be a different color. If some of the keys have icons on them that are the same color as the "fn" key color, you can press Fn + that key. Lots of times these keys will turn on/off your wireless connection, webcam, or put you into sleep mode. I don't know anything about Vista, though. Only Windows.. And I have an Alienware, which probably no one on PS has, unless they're diamond junkies AND video game junkies, like me
Posted: 4/18/2009 7:35:47 PM

P: 4/18/2009 7:53:50 PM
strmrdr Ideal Rock Total Posts: 23,296 Last Post: 10/9/2009 Member Since: 11/1/2003	Date: 4/18/2009 7:35:47 PM Author: Feralpenchant Depending on what brand of laptop you have, sometimes there is a 'function' key. It will only say 'Fn' on it, and the lettering may be a different color. If some of the keys have icons on them that are the same color as the 'fn' key color, you can press Fn + that key. Lots of times these keys will turn on/off your wireless connection, webcam, or put you into sleep mode. yep Some also have alt+fn when there is 2 the same color as the function key. ........... Karl has joined the diamond trade and is now posting as Karl_K
Posted: 4/18/2009 7:53:50 PM

P: 4/18/2009 8:00:41 PM
isaku5 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,281 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005	Date: 4/18/2009 7:53:50 PM Author: strmrdr Date: 4/18/2009 7:35:47 PM Author: Feralpenchant Depending on what brand of laptop you have, sometimes there is a 'function' key. It will only say 'Fn' on it, and the lettering may be a different color. If some of the keys have icons on them that are the same color as the 'fn' key color, you can press Fn + that key. Lots of times these keys will turn on/off your wireless connection, webcam, or put you into sleep mode. yep Some also have alt+fn when there is 2 the same color as the function key. Thanks so much. I have to leave the computer now, but will try the suggestions and report back.
Posted: 4/18/2009 8:00:41 PM

P: 4/18/2009 8:51:22 PM
aveda6 Rough Rock Total Posts: 98 Last Post: 9/6/2009 Member Since: 3/14/2009	hi...what type/model HP is it? I can probably track down the manual for you and let you know...
Posted: 4/18/2009 8:51:22 PM

P: 4/18/2009 10:14:08 PM
isaku5 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,281 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005	Date: 4/18/2009 8:00:41 PM Author: isaku5 Date: 4/18/2009 7:53:50 PM Author: strmrdr Date: 4/18/2009 7:35:47 PM Author: Feralpenchant Depending on what brand of laptop you have, sometimes there is a 'function' key. It will only say 'Fn' on it, and the lettering may be a different color. If some of the keys have icons on them that are the same color as the 'fn' key color, you can press Fn + that key. Lots of times these keys will turn on/off your wireless connection, webcam, or put you into sleep mode. yep Some also have alt+fn when there is 2 the same color as the function key. Thanks so much. I have to leave the computer now, but will try the suggestions and report back. I just tried the fn + character hoping for the third, fourth or fifth one to show and got the one I'd get if I was just typing the lower left character. Then I tried the alt+fn and got a beep but nothing else. If all else fails, I can call the local Future Shop where I bought it. Thank you both for your help.
Posted: 4/18/2009 10:14:08 PM

P: 4/18/2009 10:24:13 PM
isaku5 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,281 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005	Date: 4/18/2009 8:51:22 PM Author: aveda6 hi...what type/model HP is it? I can probably track down the manual for you and let you know... Hi Aveda. It's an HP laptop with a 17" monitor. It has HP Pavillion dw 9500 on the bottom if that helps. Don't go to any trouble until I can talk to the Help Dept. at FS. If they sold it, they should be able to tell me what to do, or find out and let me know.
Posted: 4/18/2009 10:24:13 PM

P: 4/19/2009 12:11:17 AM
Lexie Cut Rock Total Posts: 248 Last Post: 9/12/2009 Member Since: 4/1/2008	Here is the TouchPad and Keyboard manual for the HP dv9500 series notebooks (with Windows Vista OS). Hope that helps! _______________________________ "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Posted: 4/19/2009 12:11:17 AM

P: 4/19/2009 1:08:53 AM
Lexie Cut Rock Total Posts: 248 Last Post: 9/12/2009 Member Since: 4/1/2008	Hm.. out of curiosity, does your HP happen to have a Japanese keyboard? I've been looking at pictures of the dv9500 notebooks, and that particular model is the only one that has some keys with three/four characters. _______________________________ "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Posted: 4/19/2009 1:08:53 AM

P: 4/19/2009 11:32:03 AM
isaku5 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,281 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005	Lexie, you are a doll. Thanks so much for your help. No, no Japanese keyboard on this particular one...I have an oddball, perhaps. That's okay, my mother sometimes said I was, so maybe...
Posted: 4/19/2009 11:32:03 AM

P: 4/19/2009 4:27:53 PM
Feralpenchant Cut Rock Total Posts: 427 Last Post: 5/21/2009 Member Since: 2/12/2009	Looks like the HP manual told you do pretty much what me and storm said, haha. Hope you figure it out.
Posted: 4/19/2009 4:27:53 PM

P: 4/19/2009 7:34:29 PM
isaku5 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,281 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005	Date: 4/19/2009 4:27:53 PM Author: Feralpenchant Looks like the HP manual told you do pretty much what me and storm said, haha. Hope you figure it out. I know. I spent so much time looking for 'hidden gems' in there that I didn't have time to call FS today. Tomorrow, I'm planning to take the laptop down to them and watch their reaction. I'm wicked, I know, but when so many computer experts, much smarter than I, can't figure it out, a girl has to resort to extreme measures. Maybe, I'm just dyslexic in Japanese?
Posted: 4/19/2009 7:34:29 PM

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