Press the FN key on a notebook keyboard

[wozza60]

Hi, wondering how to use MS to press the blue Fn key on a notebook keyboard

[Marcus Tettmar]

Just as you would any PC:

Press F1
Press F2
...
Press F24

Ignore the fact that you physically have to press your Fn key on your laptop - the outcome is the same - Press F1 sends the F1 key, regardless of how you would physically have to do the same thing yourself.

[wozza60]

Thanks for your reply...
What I'm trying to do is get MS to press fn (Hold down) while pressing F10 (This would mute the volume on my Notebook).

I enter
Press Fn (The command doesn't turn blue)
Press F10

... It doesn't Work.....

[Me_again]

I believe you are referring to the "Fn" key found on laptop keyboards that is pressed and held to assign special functions to the regular F1 etc. keys. For instance on my laptop Fn + F2 = mute toggle, Fn + F3 = volume down, Fn + F4 = volume up. I haven't found a way to have Macro Scheduler do the equivalent of that keypress although there are alternate ways of accessing many of those functions that Macro Scheduler can automate.

What function are you trying to automate? You could download wizmo.exe from http://www.grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm, that will give you command line control of many setup items including mute. The download is a small executable file, so save it wherever you will use it, then it's simple to use:

eg mute

RunProgram>c:\test\wizmo.exe mute=1

or unmute

RunProgram>c:\test\wizmo.exe mute=0

[wozza60]

Thanks....