Home/End key on HP Omen 17 notebook

[Láďa]

I needed to use Home key in a application, but there is not that key on my keyboard. I have read a lot of available forums and I found, that as home key is standard shortcut Fn+Left Arrow (same for End as Fn+Right Arrow). But this combination doesn't work on my computer. Can anybody help me resolve this problem?

[Rainbow23]

Hi @Láďa,

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.

I understand that you are facing issues with using Home key in an application. 

Let's go through a few steps that may help to fix this issue.

I suggest that you download the HP System Event Utility from the link: HP System Event Utility

Let me know if this works.
 

You have a good day ahead.

[Láďa]

Hi Rainbow23,

I'm happy, that you answered my question. Unforutnatelly your solution doesn't work (or better say I can not run or configure Event Utility). I installed it successfully, but I didn't find any executable. All mentions on this topic in the forums on the internet touch the windows 7. Can you tell me, what I'm doing wrong? Láďa (you can reference me as Lada, I'm aware, that some characters in my name are not compatible with computers 🙂 )

[Scribularhate]

Okay, I signed up for an account JUST to answer your question, because I was SUPER annoyed by the exact same issue.

 You need to Record a Macro to one of the P keys (I used P1), which can be done fairly easily by clicking the "Omen" control button (which is located where the home key USED to be... ).

Make the Macro a "no delay" macro.

The macro steps to input are:

- Step 1:  Num lock (to turn it off)

- Step 2:  Home Key (I used the " on screen keyboard" to push the home key, since its not on the keyboard)

- Step 3: Num lock (to turn it back on)

That should solve the problem. 

It's still annoying, because now your "home" key is the top left of your keyboard instead of the right, but at least you have a home key!

Cheers.

[Qwerty0s]

Scribularhate's solution will only work on a keyboard with extra keys. For an alternative solution to this issue that will make your omen key work as a home key, follow these steps:

(step 0: set up autohotkey)

step 1: create an autohotkey script containing the following:

Send, {HOME}
Exit

Save it as home.ahk in C:\ (or edit the batch script to follow.)

step 2: create a batch script containing the following:

start /B "" "C:\Program Files\AutoHotKey\AutoHotKey.exe" C:\home.ahk

Save it as home.bat in C:\ (or edit the registry key to follow.)

step 3: back up HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HP\HP System Event\Bezel Button\8613 so that if you follow these steps wrong as I did many times you will not have to perform a system restore to restart the process.

step 4: run regedit and edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HP\HP System Event\Bezel Button\8613 for the following changes:

 - change ApplicationPath to C:\home.bat

 - change ApplicationPath2 to C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /B C:\home.bat

Reboot your computer, and after fully restarting your omen key should emulate a home key.

=====Troubleshooting=====

1. if HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HP\HP System Event\Bezel Button\ does not show up, close regedit, hit the Omen key to open the omen command center, close it again, and see if it shows up. I had this issue after restoring my registry after some mistakes figuring out the process.

2. if after restarting the key does not work, ensure that HPMSGSVC.exe is running, and then if the issue persists restore your registry and try again.

3. There may be a slight delay between hitting the omen key and the home key being struck. This is because it takes some time for:

 - HPMSGSVC to notice the button press

 - the contents of the registry key to be read

 - the batch script to run

 - autohotkey to start the script

If you can figure out a way to make this run a little faster, please let me know; for now I've spent 6 hours refining this process just for the sake of my workflow.

(also if all you need is necessarily to be able to hit the home key, pressing fn+omen inputs home, I just don't want to press two keys.)