Win8 upgrade experience

I suspect the F12 key has to be used along with the Fn key, mine does.

ThrashZone said:

F12 ?
That could get a bit cumbersome for me the F12 key accesses developer tools ?
Glad I didn't buy a h-p
Does sound like a can of worms :)

Applications have assigned Fkeys that are only active when the application is in focus. (IE; F12=developer tools, same for me)

Many laptops assign Fkeys non-standard functions and to get the standard function, you have to hit a combination (fn+Fkey). On HP, you can reverse the behavior so that Fkey is the standard function.

Another way to think of it is an aftermarket KB where you can assign keys. My wireless KB has
f1-home
f2-email
f3-search
...
f12-KB battery

and such.
but the standard Fkey takes precedence. I have to hit a combination (don't know what that is bc I don't use the "features" driver, just the MS keyboard driver)

It's not just HP, I read a post re: Toshiba too and it's not the PC mfgr - it's the wireless driver. I'm guessing they flipped a three sided coin on what to do. Nothing, Airplane mode, Airplane mode with no LED change

Anyway, I want to be clear that it is only the F12 assigned to Wifi. It does not affect F12 anywhere else that I've seen.

All of the other Fkeys work as it should, including F12 in IE-developer tools. No surprise there if you're familiar with KBs that can assign functions to keys, no can of worms or other slimey creatures.

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ThrashZone said:

no can of worms or other slimey creatures.

Britton30 said:

I suspect the F12 key has to be used along with the Fn key, mine does.

Yeah, I got tired of having to hit fn+Fkey, so I changed it in BIOS
- one of the few things you can change in HP BIOS (Insyde moded BIOS)

DavidW7ncus said:

I had System Restore turned off and something turned it back on.
I had installed a few programs and uninstalled one program with Revo.
This is with 8.1 as a VM running under Win 7.

I think that happened on my system too, but it hasn't happened again. It was early on in my eval, so I chalked it up to all of the updates being applied. This might not be the case on your machine - do you recall when you turned it off? Before or after 8.1 (and upd1).

Bill
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DavidW7ncus said:

This system was installed with 8.1 as a VM, and all windows updates were installed before turning off System Restore.
I'll have to look on my Test Box 8.1 (not a VM) and see if System Restore is turned off.

Ok, thanks David.

As long as you can spare the computer resources vm probably would be better/ easier to work with