How To Use The F Keys On A Windows Laptop On a Windows laptop, function keys typically provide two distinct sets of commands: Primary/standard and secondary/alternative.

Press F10, and small letters appear over each ribbon tab and quick access toolbar item. Alt+H takes you to the Home tab, ...

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I use the F keys that are mapped to systemwide functions for those functions. On the rare occasion that I need one of those keys for its F-key function, I just press Fn.

If you keep turning on Sticky Keys by mistake, you can turn Sticky Keys off and disable the Windows shortcut altogether.

One solution is to hold down the fn key on the bottom left of the keyboard layout. This will make the original row of function keys appear on the Touch Bar – including the Escape key.

There seems to be some unhappiness about Apple removing the function keys on the next MacBook Pros in lieu of a touch screen strip. I wonder how many people use those function keys, though. If you ...