Adding functionality to keys beyond F12

[Guest Richard]

Hi,

 

I've got a 101-key keyboard, I think. Anyway, there are three keys

to the right of F12 which used to be labeled PrtScrn ... I can't

remember the rest. On my machine, these keys are labeled with

unrecognizable graphics. Today I wanted to use the PrintScreen

function, so I pressed the left-most of this triplet. What I got was

Hibernate.

 

How can I see the coding associated with these keys?

Where can I find coding to invoke PrintScreen?

 

Thanks in advance,

Richard

[Guest dobey]

Re: Adding functionality to keys beyond F12

 

 

"Richard" <RichardDummyMailbox58407@USComputerGurus.com> wrote in message

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> Hi,

>

> I've got a 101-key keyboard, I think. Anyway, there are three keys

> to the right of F12 which used to be labeled PrtScrn ... I can't

> remember the rest. On my machine, these keys are labeled with

> unrecognizable graphics. Today I wanted to use the PrintScreen

> function, so I pressed the left-most of this triplet. What I got was

> Hibernate.

>

> How can I see the coding associated with these keys?

> Where can I find coding to invoke PrintScreen?

>

> Thanks in advance,

> Richard

>

 

 

If your keyboard has a block of three to the right of F12, and a block of

six beneath those, that's standard, but if you have the block of three and a

block of nine below that block of three, then chances are the three keys to

the right of F12 are Power, Sleep and Wake-up, (Most newer keyboards have

these three as smaller separate buttons now, but I own a keyboard where

these buttons are the same as type of buttons as the rest of the keyboard).

 

The top three keys on the block of nine will be Print Screen, Scroll lock

and Pause/Break. This means your print screen key will be to the right of

your backspace key.

 

Unless you are using specific drivers and the wrong keyboard which cause the

buttons to be mapped incorrectly.

 

Without knowing the details it's easier to recommend you search for some

screen grabbing software. I'm fairly certain there is some freeware about

that will achieve this.

[Guest Richard]

Re: Adding functionality to keys beyond F12

 

Hi Dobey,

 

Thanks for your response.

> the three keys to the right of F12 are

> Power, Sleep and Wake-up,

 

That's right on the money! It fits my situation in two respects:

1. The icons on the buttons, now that you mention it, seem to match

those functions

2. I've set Windows to Hibernate us the Power Key is pressed.

> The top three keys on the block of nine will be Print Screen, Scroll lock and Pause/Break.

They are, indeed!

> Without knowing the details it's easier to recommend you

search for some screen grabbing software. I'm fairly certain there is

some freeware about that will achieve this.

 

I use SnagIt, which is inexpensive free-ware.

 

But my *real* question is how to get a bunch of unsophisticated users

to hibernate their machines at the end of the workday in order to

reduce the delays in start-up by security packages like PrevX.

Mission accomplished.

--

Richard