fn key seems to be reversed

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My wife's Toshiba Laptop Satellite c55t a5222
was working normally last night and today she has to press the Fn key to change the volume. It is acting like there is a Fn lock on or something. I can't seem to find any help on Google, so I figured I'd ask some experts. The Toshiba help page is extremely frustrating. Sorry if this is a stupid question, but my experience on this site has been very positive this far.

Thanks for the help in advance

 
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Here is the solution I found on another website...

(0) Save all your open documents and stuff and close their respective programs

(1) Navigate to the following directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Toshiba\System Setting

(2) Double-click on the "System Settings.exe"

(3) Scroll down in the left menu until you find "keyboard"

(4) Click on the "keyboard" menu option and change the default "special function mode" to "normal f1-f12"

(5) Click the "apply" button and allow your computer to restart.

All done!!
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Thank you for the quick response... but no joy...
It does not seem to do anything.

Weird problem... any other ideas?

Not devastating but irritating.

I found ideas like restore original defaults.(NO Thank you!) Somehow this problem was created easily so it seems it shouldn't be this hard to fix.

Thanks again for the effort.
 
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Holding it for 10 seconds does work. I tried it myself and it worked fine. Don't forget, when counting to 10, go 1,1.. 2,2.. 3,3.. and so on at a slow & steady pace. Try doing so from the desktop. If need be, try it by having the TOSHIBA Function Key application open when doing the counting while holding the Fn key.
 
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I had the same problem. I'm running windows 8. if you search the computer for "function key" it will give you a result click on that and switch the enabled to on.





 
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when I search function key I get the following:

TOSHIBA Function Key enables functions when pressing specific keys or in combination with Fn. Some functions show the toast notification at the edge of the screen. These settings turn on/off notifications.

then it says
Status Notification
Touch Pad enabled On

clicking the Notification changes it to off and does nothing..

that is all I get when searching Function key

Thank you for your help though.
I appreciate it.
 
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I am with you Mr Roberts. Suffering exactly the same problem and none of the above working. Frustrating because I must have just hit some key combination accidentally but can't work it out to reverse it...
 
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Here is the solution I found on another website...

(0) Save all your open documents and stuff and close their respective programs

(1) Navigate to the following directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Toshiba\System Setting

(2) Double-click on the "System Settings.exe"

(3) Scroll down in the left menu until you find "keyboard"

(4) Click on the "keyboard" menu option and change the default "special function mode" to "normal f1-f12"

(5) Click the "apply" button and allow your computer to restart.

All done!!
 
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THANK YOU!!!!!!!
thank you
thank you

Finally an answer that works. I can't even thank you enough. That was SOOO annoying!
My wife will be thrilled.

I don't know who ErVivek is but he selected a terrible best answer to MY question.

You should get that honor.

Once again, Thank you!!

Have a great day!
 
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Aguy2014 solution worked for me finally! But after I restarted it didnt work so I did the same thing but put it back to special function key and restarted again the it was working yaay. Was never going to refresh my computer. Your amazing!
 
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Aguy2014's solution worked for us. It has happened again since. We had to also change the wake up on keyboard to enabled..( who knows for what reason...) several restarts as well...

Good luck!!!
 
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WORKS!!!!! Just installed updates and I had to use FN + a key instead of just the key. This works!!!!!!!!!!! TY TY TY


 
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Plzzzzz it is not working for me!
When I bought the laptop recently it the default was to use the special key without pressing fn, suddenly I needed to press fn in order to use the special keys.. I did go to "System Setting" changed it to "using standard f1.." and restart the computer then again went and changed it to "using Special keys" and restarted the computer again but still nothing changed!!!! I did that 3 or 4 times but nothing seems to happen!!!! Pleaaase Help!!
One more thing, Print Screen key should be used while pressing fn but it is not working at all!
 
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did you try the wake up on keyboard to enabled before restarting,,, don't know why that mattered, but the second time we had to fix it that helped... Really annoying, wish I knew why it changed to begin with.

Good luck.
 
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Tried but didn't work 🙁
 
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http://pricklytech.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/surface-pro-3-quick-tip-alt-f4-does-not-work/

On the Surface pro 2 and 3 (and possibly the sp1 and other Win8 machines):

"... pressing and holding the Fn key and then pressing Caps toggles the functionality of the top row of keys on the Type cover so that you can use Alt + F4. This is a toggle though – once you can use Alt + F4 you have to toggle back to use the default (pictured) functionality of these keys."
 
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Hello

I just solved the Function (Fn) key problem by accident!

Don´t go to your BIOS. Pres Cntr+FN and it´s function flips back to normal.

(where pressing F3 results in your screen brightening up, like your day, i hope)

Kind regards, hope this works for all.

S.
 
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