F-lock on the Microsoft Office Keyboard

[Richard]

I was wondering if there is a way of making the f-lock on
the Microsoft Office Keyboard turn on at startup. When F-
lock is off, all the F keys do other commands instead.
Most of the time, I want them to operate normally. I have
a reminder appear at startup to remind me to turn it on.
However I (and my friends) would be grateful if it would
turn on automatically.

Thanks.
Richard
http://www.richardswebsite.me.uk

[Jason Tsang]

There is no way to programmatically control the state of the FLock key.

However, depending on your OS, you can reprogram the keys that F Lock
affects so that it appears that the F Lock state is flipped.

See here for details
http://mvps.org/jtsang/flock.html

--
Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP

Find out about the MS MVP Program -
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

"Richard" > wrote in message
...
> I was wondering if there is a way of making the f-lock on
> the Microsoft Office Keyboard turn on at startup. When F-
> lock is off, all the F keys do other commands instead.
> Most of the time, I want them to operate normally. I have
> a reminder appear at startup to remind me to turn it on.
> However I (and my friends) would be grateful if it would
> turn on automatically.
>
> Thanks.
> Richard
> http://www.richardswebsite.me.uk

[Dr Robin Bignall]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:38:33 -0700, "Richard" >
wrote:

>I was wondering if there is a way of making the f-lock on
>the Microsoft Office Keyboard turn on at startup. When F-
>lock is off, all the F keys do other commands instead.
>Most of the time, I want them to operate normally. I have
>a reminder appear at startup to remind me to turn it on.
>However I (and my friends) would be grateful if it would
>turn on automatically.
>
No there isn't. At least, not with the supplied software, and I can't
honestly be bothered to see if there's a registry hack for it. That is the
most annoying 'feeture' of these keyboards. I have to remember to hit
F-lock each time it comes back from hibernation.

--

wrmst rgrds
Robin Bignall

Remote Hertfordshire
England

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/docrobin/homepage.htm

[Jim Macklin]

It was a stupid design decision to make the mechanical
default turn off standard function keys. For instance, if
you want to access the BIOS, you must press two keys in
quick succession immediately on turning the power on.

But once you know that, it becomes less of a problem...but
the first few weeks I had this keyboard it was very
frustrating try to get into the BIOS.


"Richard" > wrote in message
...
| I was wondering if there is a way of making the f-lock on
| the Microsoft Office Keyboard turn on at startup. When F-
| lock is off, all the F keys do other commands instead.
| Most of the time, I want them to operate normally. I have
| a reminder appear at startup to remind me to turn it on.
| However I (and my friends) would be grateful if it would
| turn on automatically.
|
| Thanks.
| Richard
| http://www.richardswebsite.me.uk

[Dr Robin Bignall]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:47:41 -0400, "Jason Tsang"
> wrote:

>There is no way to programmatically control the state of the FLock key.
>
>However, depending on your OS, you can reprogram the keys that F Lock
>affects so that it appears that the F Lock state is flipped.
>
>See here for details
>http://mvps.org/jtsang/flock.html

That is a very useful tip indeed. Thank you, Jason.

--

wrmst rgrds
Robin Bignall

Remote Hertfordshire
England

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/docrobin/homepage.htm

[JMLESQ]

Jason,

A HUGE thank you for the registry edit.

THANKS!

John

"Jason Tsang" > wrote in message
...
> There is no way to programmatically control the state of the FLock key.
>
> However, depending on your OS, you can reprogram the keys that F Lock
> affects so that it appears that the F Lock state is flipped.
>
> See here for details
> http://mvps.org/jtsang/flock.html
>
> --
> Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP
>
> Find out about the MS MVP Program -
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx
>
> "Richard" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I was wondering if there is a way of making the f-lock on
> > the Microsoft Office Keyboard turn on at startup. When F-
> > lock is off, all the F keys do other commands instead.
> > Most of the time, I want them to operate normally. I have
> > a reminder appear at startup to remind me to turn it on.
> > However I (and my friends) would be grateful if it would
> > turn on automatically.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Richard
> > http://www.richardswebsite.me.uk
>
>