FN key not working

Samain2000

Toshiba Satelite laptop running Windows 7. Normally when I press the FN key a drop down appears at the top of the screen. From there I could select things like wireless on/ off and brightness controls. Now when I press the FN key nothing happens. Some of the things such as brightness I can adjust with F6 & F7 but not wireless, zoom or touchpad.
Any ideas please how I can get the drop down back.

jazzy

Have you tried using the on screen keyboard?
Open On-Screen Keyboard by clicking the "Start" button , clicking "All Programs", clicking "Accessories", clicking "Ease of Access", and then clicking "On-Screen Keyboard"
It's not a fix, but it may help if you have a faulty fn key

Samain2000

@jazzy. I can do it that way, in fact have been using a taskbar shortcut to it. Really wanted to get the FN key back so I can quickly switch the wireless off if need to as this laptop has no physical switch to do it.
Thanks for answering.

Samain2000

23n1th wrote: »

Find the model of the laptop and reinstall the drivers for the keyboard.

Like I'm going to listen to someone who has that stupid comment as a signature on their post.
Also you know *&^%. It is nothing to do with the drivers.
Why don't you go and amuse yourself in private. Stop being an irritating little $^&%.

rapunzelz86

Samain2000 wrote: »

Like I'm going to listen to someone who has that stupid comment as a signature on their post.
Also you know *&^%. It is nothing to do with the drivers.
Why don't you go and amuse yourself in private. Stop being an irritating little $^&%.

Woah! Thats a little extreme isnt it? or is this a private dispute?

byb3

Samain2000 wrote: »

Like I'm going to listen to someone who has that stupid comment as a signature on their post.
Also you know *&^%. It is nothing to do with the drivers.
Why don't you go and amuse yourself in private. Stop being an irritating little $^&%.

I've no idea why you shot that person down, but he's got a point. You are probably missing a Taskbar Utility that needs to be installed so that the extra keyboard functions work.

On the other hand, I've had issues with Hibernating/Sleep/Standby and then turning back on my laptop to find that the FN key doesn't work. Try a shutdown and then turn it on again.