How to change Dell Mini 10v Function key mapping to normal mode?

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I’ve received my Dell Mini 10v and this is the first issue, I’ve faced while started working with it. I am a keyboard lover for most of the cases, if possible I will be using only my keyboard to work with softwares because it’s faster than using mouse and also I’m good at using it. :)

Dell Mini has some problems with it’s function keys. It doesn’t have any dedicated function keys. It’s there in the top row of the keyboard but if you need to press F1-F12, you also need to hold down ‘fn’ key just left to the Windows Key. This quite bad and they’re deviating from the standard. Even in a point I was thinking about writing a keyboard filter driver to change the mapping as Mark Russinovich Wrote Ctrl2Cap driver.

Fortunately when I skimmed through the driver list of Dell Mini 10v on dell.com, I could find an application related to function keys. It hadn’t any good information about what it’s doing but still I wish to have a try to get rid of this problem.

Surprisingly it was the one I was seeking for. Just downloaded it from the Dell Website and installed.

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Just enable the checkbox to make the function keys functions as in a normal keyboard.

You can download the driver by navigating to Dell.com Drivers page. Here’s I’m giving link to the corresponding driver but I’m not sure how long it will work as dell may frequently update the URL information.

Download Function Keys for Dell Mini 10v

 
  • Tom

    Another option would be to just change the respective BIOS setting. It’s called “Function Key Behavior”, and allows to have the top row of keys to be either multimedia or function keys.