[muglo] Re: fn key substitute?

  • From: Bob McDaniel <rmcdaniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:25:09 -0400

Thanks, Dave. This is the solution. Windows XP is now running on my grandson's iMac using VirtualBox.

Bob

On 5-Jul-10, at 6:37 PM, Dave Knight wrote:


If you are in fact in the situation where the Function keys have a new purpose and you have no Fn key to let you press the real F8 key you can switch off the extended features, as follows:

System Preferences -> Keyboard
        Set "Use all F1, F2, etc keys as standard function keys" to ON


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