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Pavilion Wired Keyboard 300
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have purchased a number of HP Pavilion Wired Keyboard 300 and tried them on various computers.
It has not been possible to turn off the Fn key function, I have tried FN + ESC, FN + Caps Lock but none of these key combinations work.
Is there any software that can permanently turn off the FN keys?

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The Fn function key setting of the machine itself can refer to: Restart the computer, click F10 to enter bios continuously, and then use the left and right keys of the keyboard to move to the system configuration----find the action key mode is enable by default. At this time, you can directly use the F1-F12 function keys without using FN. But it is not sure whether it is useful for an external keyboard.

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There is no setting in BIOS for this, since the keyboards are external USB-keyboards (we have looked in BIOS - as well).

Lenovo has the same issue for their Lenovo Slim Keyboards - therefore they have published a piece of software to invert the Fn-key-function.

That works perfectly.

But of course that software doesn't work for our HP keyboards.

Doesn't HP have a piece of software, that does the same?

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