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#1
06-11-2003, 08:41 PM
Why does my keyboard have a "turbo" button? It's under the enter key and to the right of shift.

I also have pressed it, but nothing has ever happened. My phone rang once afterwards though.

F1-F12? I know a couple of them are useful, but 12 of them?
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06-11-2003, 08:44 PM
I don't know about that turbo button, but I do use the F1-F12 keys regularly at work, as well as at home.

One of my PC's had a turbo button on the CPU tower, but it was also useless. A pretty light lit up when I pressed it, though.
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#3
06-11-2003, 08:52 PM
My F1-12 buttons could be covered with that stuff that killed Palmer in 24, and I wouldn't know. I've never touched them.
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06-11-2003, 08:55 PM
I think they have some kind of functionality in Windows apps like Word or Excel, but I never use them for that - mostly they're for menus or functions in the accoutning software we use here.

At home, I only use them when I play games - again, menus or weapons, depending on the game.
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06-11-2003, 09:04 PM
Quote:My F1-12 buttons could be covered with that stuff that killed Palmer in 24

We don't know if he's dead for sure. :34:
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06-11-2003, 09:06 PM
the f keys are used a lot for games and also during the system startup to access the bios or start in safe mode and stuff like that.
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06-11-2003, 09:12 PM
what about the Pause/Break key?
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06-11-2003, 09:15 PM
thats what you use to pause and break.

duh.
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06-11-2003, 09:42 PM
Yeah. Pause/Break. That's one I have know idea what the Hell it is. And I don't play games on my computer, being an adult and all.

But this Turbo button is really driving me insane. I might just pop it off my keyboard.
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06-11-2003, 09:56 PM
The F1-F12 buttons and pause/break were more useful in ancient times, before every computer had Windows and a mouse. It would have been near impossible to use word processing software or spreadsheets without the F keys back then, and the pause was useful particularly for stopping out of control BASIC programs (like while testing a program, if you forgot to close a loop).
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06-12-2003, 12:34 AM
.... The F 1 -F 12 buttons are very useful in programs such as AutoCad....
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06-12-2003, 12:38 AM
enough with the function buttons. What about the fucking turbo button?
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06-12-2003, 12:50 AM
... it works good when you're trying to fly in Super Mario Bros. 3....
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06-12-2003, 03:41 AM
i used to have a turbo button on a really old computer in the tower. you have a laptop right? maybe its to control how much power the processor uses if you want the battery to last longer or something
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06-12-2003, 07:25 AM
F4 works great when combined with the Alt button.
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06-12-2003, 01:04 PM
F1=Windows Help
F3=Find
F5=refresh in IE
F11=max screen in IE

There's enough to get you started.
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06-12-2003, 04:51 PM
do you have a complete list?

my u key is sticking, surprising how many words have U's
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06-12-2003, 05:02 PM
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06-12-2003, 05:08 PM
oh yeah, thanks :crackhead:
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06-12-2003, 05:14 PM
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