Timeline for My F3 button changes my volume instead of doing what it should
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| Feb 23, 2016 at 19:59 | comment | added | Carcigenicate | @Gigala I have a relatively high-end gaming laptop, and they purposefully moved the Windows Key to the right of the spacebar to prevent accidental presses during games. While it's more of a pain when I do actually need it, it has helped with me accidentally hitting and causing who-knows-what to happen. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 18:20 | comment | added | NBN-Alex | damnit, can't edit the last comment, meant to say "100% not true" in my observation | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 17:09 | comment | added | IMSoP | @NBN-Alex Yeah, I get all that; just wasn't sure what Windows Vista had to do with it, since it seems just as likely for a laptop to use or not use a non-standard layout any time in the last 20 years. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 17:07 | comment | added | NBN-Alex | @IMSoP It's been around for a while, but from personal antidote, It seemed like some OEMs would replace the windows key with an Fn key on short keyboards for laptops. (due to a lack of space) This is 100% true of course and just an observation from really long ago in comparison. :s | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 16:51 | comment | added | Tim S. | The Fn key doesn't relate to versions of Windows. It relates to laptop designers realizing they can save a row of keys by combining function keys with the other "media keys" that people came to expect and love on laptop keyboards. That's also a photo I got from wikipedia and could be very old too, I have no idea. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 16:31 | comment | added | IMSoP | @NBN-Alex Why pre-Vista? The Windows key has been around since Windows 95; making it 20 years since it was a good idea to put Fn between Ctrl and Alt! | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 15:12 | comment | added | NBN-Alex | @Gigala The Devil. and pre-Vista laptops I have to assume. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 14:48 | comment | added | Gigala | Thats one horrible Keyboard-Layout I can imagine. Who would replace the Windows-Button with Fn o.O | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 1:28 | history | answered | Tim S. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |