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Question posted by elingjor on September 28th, 2013

Hotkeys

I bought this laptop expecting to be able to disable the hotkeys located where F1 - F12 should be without pressing Fn button. I just found out it's not possible with the Z500 model to have that option disabled on the BIOS. Or is there a solution? I would like to know it. Thank you

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Answer #1: Posted by TommyKervz on September 28th, 2013 7:38 AM

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Greetings. See the video here

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?DocID=HT051314

According to the thread below there's an option to disable/enable the function keys in bios. please, set it to disable so you won't have to press fn keys.

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/change-the-special-keys-Lenovo-Z500-ideapad/td-p/995319

Hope that is helpful.
Kervz at www.satechhelp.co.za

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