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Who changed my function keys? F7 and F8 functions have been overwritten in Windows 7

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Mar 15, 20262700 views
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F7 now opens Thunderbird and F8 opens Firefox. I don't know when this changed, but this overrides the functions for those keys in all programs (quick-save in games, insert date in my text editor). The first thing I checked was mouse and keyboard drivers, but uninstalling them didn't change the beha…

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Fix for: Who changed my function keys? F7 and F8 functions have been overwritten in Windows 7

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Go to your Start menu and look for the shortcut for Mozilla Firefox. Right-click it and then at the bottom of the list select . You should hopefully see something like this window: Where my says you can click in that box and press the backspace key …

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