Screen Brightness I have an HP TouchSmart 600 and wireless keyboard. Today one of the keys on the keyboard broke so I had to but a new keyboard; however, one of key combinations to increase the brioghgtness of the screen was Fn and the F10 keys. I have no idea how to do that with the new keyboard because it doesn't have an Fn key

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Left side keys - moon-hibernating mode, club+hp - takes you to hp internet club (lots of resources,free classes, etc on hp), globe spinning-takes you to internet-yourhomepage, envelope-takes you to windows email, magnifying glass- takes you to windows live search, ?-takes you to help

right side keys- arrowup1-opens disk drive, arrow up 2-opens 2nd disk drive if you have two, solid dot-opens dvd suite, arrows left-rewind, arrow right -fast forward slow, 2 arrows right-fast forward fast, and solid square -pause these are all media functions

I discovered all of this by taking a chance and pushing the key to see what happened. really wish they put a manual, or screen showing functions for the keyboard. hope this helps someone else!

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have you tried shift and num lock

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If the wrong characters appear when you are typing or you are trying to use a keyboard that is different than the one that came with the computer, use the following steps to synchronize Windows to the type of keyboard you have:

1. Click Start , and type region into the Start Search field.
   
2. Select the Keyboards and Languages tab.
   
3. Click Change Keyboards .
   A Text Services and Input Languages window opens.
   Figure 3: Change Keyboard button
   
   
4. Click Add .
   Figure 4: Add button
   
   
5. Select the keyboard(s) you want to use and click OK .
   Figure 5: Add input language: US Dvorak keyboard selected.
   
   The new keyboard is added to the list of available keyboards and a keyboard icon appears on the system tray, allowing you to switch between the keyboard that you want to use with the mouse.
   Figure 6: Keyboard tray icon
   
   
6. From the Text Services and Input Languages window, select the new keyboard in the list and click Move up until it is first in the list. This makes it the default keyboard.
   Figure 7: Move up button
   
   
7. Click OK . You can now use the new keyboard. If you find that the new keyboard works well and you do not want to use the other keyboard, repeat these steps and Remove the keyboard that you do not want from the General tab of the Text Services and Input Languages window.
   

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Changed the setting of the keyboard and reconfigure the key board layout in control pannel.... If required update the drivers for the keyboard... if thet does not resolves the issue run a system restore

SOURCE: HP compaq 6710b - Hi I can't adjust the brigthness

You may have a defective CCFL backlight, it may have the following symptom: Screen flashes on and off or displays reddish pink hue. Picture stays on in red and slowly be come normal. Picture flickering with dim display or appear black. Picture flickers on and off. All these symptoms indicate that the LCD backlight lamp (CCFL Lamp) has reached the end of the life and all you need to do is replace the CCFL lamp.
To determine if the video card or the LCD is faulty, connect an external monitor to your laptop and power the monitor up first then the laptop, if you see the normal Windows images then the video card and laptop is OK and the problem is definitely the backlight. Dim image and/or dark display on the laptop's LCD screen indicates a faulty LCD backlight. It could be a faulty inverter that supplies high voltage to the CCFL lamp or it is the CCLF lamp is nearly burnt out; usually the CCFL lamp fails before the inverter.
The inverter can be replaced easily but the CCLF lamp is more time consuming and requires soldering skills.
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