Keyboard CONTROL button location

RickJ · #1 May 7, 2007, 03:09 AM

For umpteen years I've used the Control button in the lower left corner. Every keyboard I've known has had it there.

Now I have a laptop where the "Fn" button is there...drives me nuts!! I keep hitting Fn when I mean to hit Control.

...and there'll be no getting used to it as my other 2 well-used computers have CONTROL in the lower left.

What's up with this?

...just venting a bit.

Why oh why would a big manufacturer do something as crazy as relocating a key whose location has pretty much become an industry standard??

Isn't that like putting the brake pedal on the right in a vehicle?

Curlyben · May 7, 2007, 03:17 AM

hehehehe welcome to the HP/Compaq Club.
I have no idea why they have chosen to switch these buttons over, but you soon get used to it

RickJ · May 7, 2007, 03:20 AM

We'll have to add Gateway to the list too.

NeedKarma · May 7, 2007, 03:28 AM

Add IBM Thinkpads too.

Also no Windows key.

RickJ · May 7, 2007, 03:32 AM

Misery loves company

Glad to know I'm not alone. Seems crazy to me to change something that has become a standard.



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