:mad: I have a new Dell notebook with Windows Vista. I somehow managed to turn on the "Fn" key, and I can't turn it off. (Fn is the key that lets you re-purpose some of the other keys). There's no Fn-lock key to turn it off/on, I have no idea how I did it.

It makes numbers when I type letters, dashes when I type zeros, and so on. Very frustrating! I can't type crap on my computer now. (I mean that literally too, when I type "crap", it comes out as cra*.)

I tried restarting, when that didn't work, I shut it down and let it sit for awhile, but when I turned it back on... same problem.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

Try pressing shift + numlock, to toggle the Fn feature.

I looked at so many help sites, and spent over 3 hours trying to figure out how to fix that dumb problem, and here it was! It did the trick! Thanks!

Oh Thank you so much, I did the same thing. I've looked everywhere, everyone had a different command and none of them worked. I just wanted to say Thanks SOO much!:)

THANKS A MILLION!! I just bought a laptop and this feature was on it and it was making me mad!!

Very simple solution. Press the num lock key. If the num lock is enabled, its like the fn key is stuck. I had this problem with my new dell laptop, and looked kind of foolish when I called to ask for help. Hope this helps you.

That same thing is happening to me right now! It is so annoying :mad: it is making me pissed

Yay! I got it fixed!

Thanks, you are great.:)

I don't have a numbers lock on my laptop!!

I got it! Found elsewhere to hold fn key down and the scroll button next to F12! It worked!!