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‎04-17-2015 06:12 PM

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Product: HP Envy 17
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Hey guys,

My laptop is a pretty good laptop, with a proper nvidia graphics card an i7 cpu and even 16gb of ram. Even having a 17 inch full HD 1920 * 1080 screen, making it amazing for games! Even GTA V for Pc runs pretty well on this powerful laptop.

All of those things make this an amazing gaming PC, however it has one draw back that makes it almost impossible to play a game with a good steady flow.

This one fatal gaming flaw is in fact the keyboard, but to be specific it is the function keys. The HP Envy 17 has both F1 - F12 and the insert key. However these are the secondary keys. The primary keys are system keys which change the brightness or the volume. What this means is if I want to use F2 in a game I have to hold the function key then press F2.

This sounds minor but when playing games it can be annoying having to hold down a function key just to use one of the F keys.

Dies anyone know of a way to get this fixed and reverse it, that way if I want to mute my laptop I have to press function and then the F6. I hope people know what I mean and please if you do know a fix that would be great if you could post it bellow.

Thanks,
Connor Burnett.
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