HP Pavilion Wireless Keyboard 600 has no way to unlock/lock FN key

[MrScratchy]

I have bought the wireles Pavillion 600 keyboard to go with my non HP laptop. However, the top row of the keyboard is a combined multi media/function key row. 

What is really unusable for me is that the multimedia is the defauilt. So in order to press F5 to refresh my browser, I have to press FN+f5. 

My laptop also has such a combined row but i set it in the bios to always use the function keys. This setting of course has no effect at all on my wireless keyboard.

I have looked for resolutions and found people mentioning pressing both the esc key as the FN key to lock it, but that doesnt work. 

Really, for the life of me I don't understand why the designers would not give us a way to decide for ourselves what the default is and add a FN-lock button on the keyboard like a lot of keyboards have.

Is there a way to fix this?

[Echo_Lake]

@MrScratchy

Welcome to HP Forums,  

This is a great place to get support, find answers and tips,
Thank you for posting your query, I'll be more than glad to help you out 🙂

I see that your experiencing issue with the keyboard function keys,
Don't worry as I'll be glad to help, however, to provide an accurate resolution, I need a few more details:

• is this first time you're trying to enable/use the multimedia functions key?

While you respond to that, I recommend you to perform the following steps to isolate the issue and arrive at a fix:

Let's trying switch back from the multimedia to standard function, press the fn+esc keys simultaneously again.

Pressing the Fn key simultaneously with an f1 to f11 key performs the standard function.

Hope this helps! Keep me posted for further assistance.

[VS65]

Hi there, I have the same question. Fn+Esc didn't work. On my laptop the function keys react normal (so inverse to my wireless keyboard). Have you got the solution?

[Darksmiley]

Yep, Same problem! What an idiot designed it to work like this?

[serjak]

Hi there, 

I have the same issue and just to be mentioned, pressing "fn+esc" keys simultaneously does not work !!!

Is there a way HP has figured out this annoying problem of action keys beeing always on  ???

At this point I m leaning towards sending the keyboard back to store as I cannot use it for my daily work, if there s no solution for this matter