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Assigning F keys a value

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by jack-m 1 view

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Back in the day of DOS, Win 3.0 and 3.1, I was able to assign a vaue such as a password to an F key. After searching the web extensively and contacting Micrsoft I am unable to get an answer.
Does anyone know how this can be done? There a F keys whose function I never use and I fail to understand why the function I don't use can't be eliminated to leave that key available for my own assignment. Thanks for your time and attention.
Jack

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by oh smeg

As Windows now uses the Function Keys where as back in the DOS Days it was the various Applications that used the Function Keys.

However if you have a Multimedia Keyboard the extra keys are programmable but you'll need to install the Keyboard Driver so that you can program these extra keys.

Otherwise I would go with the above suggestion.

Col

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