Latop issue

I am not really a laptop kinda person i would rather use my desktop.

But any way i spent the last hour trying to figure out way in the world the wireless connection would not turn on this Gateway laptop.I guess my mom accidentally turned it off.

I have ran every scan i know of even malware scan to double check for any thing out of the ordinary.Nothing Clean

Then i ran a chkdsk to see if any of the drives were corrupted.
Then i ran a SFC /scannow.

These came up clean.

I tried services to check all of them were correct.And they were.

And then i finally figured out that the F3 Key turns off the wireless for some random reason.

Is there any way to stop that from happening.

This is a Gateway NV57H57u




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipax-gPb_9I

 

wile e coyote...

Thanks for the entertainment.

This might help understand the issue, but I don't see anything about turning it off:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/38044-43-acer-notebook-internet-connection

No idea if this will help:

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/turn-off-flock-gateway-laptop-49009.html

If you have a hotkey process like this one running:

http://www.shouldiremoveit.com/Hotkey-Utility-10104-program.aspx

check to see if it is in your startups. Maybe you can disable it that way. In the search box type msconfig and then run the app. Startups tab->uncheck the app, so that it won't start on boot. You don't have to restart, and I don't know why MS prompts for a restart after changing one of these...:-o

 

No all i need to do is touch the F3 key to turn off the wireless option.I don't need to touch any thing else.

 

Checked all of that stuff and this is my mums laptop so i don't want to change too much of any thing be cause she gets pissed if i do.

I am just going to try and remember the F3 key if it happens again.It only happened once be for.

 

I know the keyboards for the MS Surface have the radio/display/trackpad/media settings as the primary keypress, and if you want to access the "F" (F8 for example) keys, you need to hold Fn and press the F8 key to access it's original function.

The same thing goes for a ThinkPad that I set up on a domain where I work. Grrr, that made me mad trying to get the thing to boot into Safe Mode... :mad

Anyways, it would seem that this is how they're set up from the OEMs these days? I've seen a setting in the UEFI/BIOS of some laptops though that controls whether the Fn triggers "Function" or "Special" keys. I'd have a look.