Re: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop
You normally need to press a function key or the del key right at the very start of the boot sequence, almost straight after the laptop is switched on. Try F2 or Escape on the HP machine as a starting point. -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Miller Sent: 30 December 2015 05:51 To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop Wayne and Robin, First, thanks for responding. Wayne, I do not have those extra keys on mine. Robin, do you know where the bios is at so that I can get sighted help to get this working? Kurt After blindness and a double organ transplant, you can say I am as resilient as rubber, anything you throw at me I am going to bounce back from! -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Robin Frost Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 9:47 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop Hi, Sadly with HP's the only way to change that setting is to get someone with a pair of eyes to walk through their instructions for changing that setting in bios. Other makes sometimes have the setting available under keyboard settings in control panel or system but not HP sorry to say. I wish I had better news but there you have it. Robin -Original Message- From: Kurt Miller Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 9:12 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop Hi all, Just purchased a new HP laptop with no applications key. I tried the function key and the f10 for the applications but still nothing happened, in fact nothing is happening. I want to change the way the function key works anyway because it is easier to use JAWS when the function key is for the volume and tracks and the f keys are for what they normally should be. Can anyone give pointers as to why I can't get anything to happen with the f keys? Thanks for any help. Kurt After blindness and a double organ transplant, you can say I am as resilient as rubber, anything you throw at me I am going to bounce back from! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ This message may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender that you have received the message in error before deleting it. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is the secure email and directory service available for all NHS staff in England and Scotland NHSmail is approved for exchanging patient data and other sensitive information with NHSmail and GSi recipients NHSmail provides an email address for your career in the NHS and can be accessed anywhere For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop
Hi Kurt. This is Helga! How are you? I don't think function key works with the f10 for the application key. I use to have an HP laptop before, and for the application key I did shift F10, not function key F10. Have you tried doing shift F10? Just wondering. If not, I recommend you try that! Hope this helps. I look forward in hearing form you soon. Thanks and God bless! Helga Schreiber Member of National Federation of the Blind and Florida Association of Blind Students. Member of the International Networkers Team (INT). Independent Entrepreneur of the Company 4Life Research. Phone: (561) 706-5950 Email: helga.schreibe...@gmail.com Skype: helga.schreiber26 4Life Website: http://helgaschreiber.my4life.com/1/default.aspx INT Website: http://int4life.com/ "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 29, 2015, at 9:46 PM, Robin Frost <robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > Sadly with HP's the only way to change that setting is to get someone with a > pair of eyes to walk through their instructions for changing that setting in > bios. Other makes sometimes have the setting available under keyboard > settings in control panel or system but not HP sorry to say. > I wish I had better news but there you have it. > Robin > > > -Original Message- From: Kurt Miller > Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 9:12 PM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop > > Hi all, > > Just purchased a new HP laptop with no applications key. I tried the > function key and the f10 for the applications but still nothing happened, in > fact nothing is happening. I want to change the way the function key works > anyway because it is easier to use JAWS when the function key is for the > volume and tracks and the f keys are for what they normally should be. Can > anyone give pointers as to why I can't get anything to happen with the f > keys? > > Thanks for any help. > > Kurt > > > > After blindness and a double organ transplant, you can say I am as resilient > as rubber, anything you throw at me I am going to bounce back from! > > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop
Curt, HP has re-mapped the function keys. Usually, just to the right of the lefthand control-key is a Func key. You need to press that in conjunction woith one of the functionkeys f1-f12 to get it to do the traditional function. Otherwise, you are in what HP calls ActionKey mode. Generally, you can return the HP to function like normal: This "amazing" technology is called "Action Keys Mode", and the good news is that it is very easily turned off to get your laptop back to working the standard way of having to press the fn key. Steps to fix: - Shut Down your computer completely. Don't put in Sleep or Hibernate - Press Power button to start - Immediately press F10 key a few times - This will start the BIOS - Go to 3rd page (System Configuration). Press right arrow key to go to next page - Select the "Action Keys Mode". Press ENTER. Select DISABLE - Save and Exit "A person cannot survive as a true Spartan fan unless he is a bit of a masochist and a very large optimist." Steve Lansing, MI - Original Message - From: Kurt Miller To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 9:12 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop Hi all, Just purchased a new HP laptop with no applications key. I tried the function key and the f10 for the applications but still nothing happened, in fact nothing is happening. I want to change the way the function key works anyway because it is easier to use JAWS when the function key is for the volume and tracks and the f keys are for what they normally should be. Can anyone give pointers as to why I can't get anything to happen with the f keys? Thanks for any help. Kurt After blindness and a double organ transplant, you can say I am as resilient as rubber, anything you throw at me I am going to bounce back from! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop
Hi all, Just purchased a new HP laptop with no applications key. I tried the function key and the f10 for the applications but still nothing happened, in fact nothing is happening. I want to change the way the function key works anyway because it is easier to use JAWS when the function key is for the volume and tracks and the f keys are for what they normally should be. Can anyone give pointers as to why I can't get anything to happen with the f keys? Thanks for any help. Kurt After blindness and a double organ transplant, you can say I am as resilient as rubber, anything you throw at me I am going to bounce back from! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop
I have a new HP laptop and I use either the right mouse button on the numb pad or there is a double bar at the bottom of the keyboard under the spacebar and the right side of that opens the context menu. I don't know if you have the same extra bars on the keyboard you have. I still haven't figured out how to make the FN key work with the row of F keys. I had 2 Asus machines and they were easier. Wayne -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Miller Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 8:12 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop Hi all, Just purchased a new HP laptop with no applications key. I tried the function key and the f10 for the applications but still nothing happened, in fact nothing is happening. I want to change the way the function key works anyway because it is easier to use JAWS when the function key is for the volume and tracks and the f keys are for what they normally should be. Can anyone give pointers as to why I can't get anything to happen with the f keys? Thanks for any help. Kurt After blindness and a double organ transplant, you can say I am as resilient as rubber, anything you throw at me I am going to bounce back from! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop
Hi, Sadly with HP's the only way to change that setting is to get someone with a pair of eyes to walk through their instructions for changing that setting in bios. Other makes sometimes have the setting available under keyboard settings in control panel or system but not HP sorry to say. I wish I had better news but there you have it. Robin -Original Message- From: Kurt Miller Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 9:12 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop Hi all, Just purchased a new HP laptop with no applications key. I tried the function key and the f10 for the applications but still nothing happened, in fact nothing is happening. I want to change the way the function key works anyway because it is easier to use JAWS when the function key is for the volume and tracks and the f keys are for what they normally should be. Can anyone give pointers as to why I can't get anything to happen with the f keys? Thanks for any help. Kurt After blindness and a double organ transplant, you can say I am as resilient as rubber, anything you throw at me I am going to bounce back from! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop
Wayne and Robin, First, thanks for responding. Wayne, I do not have those extra keys on mine. Robin, do you know where the bios is at so that I can get sighted help to get this working? Kurt After blindness and a double organ transplant, you can say I am as resilient as rubber, anything you throw at me I am going to bounce back from! -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Robin Frost Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 9:47 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop Hi, Sadly with HP's the only way to change that setting is to get someone with a pair of eyes to walk through their instructions for changing that setting in bios. Other makes sometimes have the setting available under keyboard settings in control panel or system but not HP sorry to say. I wish I had better news but there you have it. Robin -Original Message- From: Kurt Miller Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 9:12 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Getting the applications key working on new HP laptop Hi all, Just purchased a new HP laptop with no applications key. I tried the function key and the f10 for the applications but still nothing happened, in fact nothing is happening. I want to change the way the function key works anyway because it is easier to use JAWS when the function key is for the volume and tracks and the f keys are for what they normally should be. Can anyone give pointers as to why I can't get anything to happen with the f keys? Thanks for any help. Kurt After blindness and a double organ transplant, you can say I am as resilient as rubber, anything you throw at me I am going to bounce back from! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
