[NFBCS] Is It Possible to Configure a New Laptop without Sighted Help

[Ed Barnes]

Hi there Sahar, at work I am currently working on imaging and deploying 125 hp 6550 g5 laptops to employees at the department of finance, I will take a look at this later this week and find out if there is an easier way to do it and let you know.
I have sent a copy of this note to my work email.
Note, I am off work on Monday July 27 and Tuesday July 28, returning on July 29 2020.
Sahar, send me an email at my work address and I will reply with an answer on Wednesday July 29 when I am back in the office.
edbarnes at gov.nl.ca
Thanks - Ed Barnes


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I wish there is a way to reset function keys on HP laptops without going to the bios. If anyone knows of a trick, I'd love to know. 😊

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Hello Ryan,  Nicole, and List.
Ryan, on most Lenovo laptops, the thinkpad and the ideapad lines, thinkpad being business series, and Ideapad being geared toward the residential consumer you login to the laptop.
 you can re-set the function keys back to the traditional behavior where f4 is f4 for example by simply pressing fn+esc after you login to the laptop.
Good luck, please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

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One thing you may need sighted assistance for is going into the BIOS and configuring it so that the function keys are used as function keys are not for things like volume and display brightness.  Otherwise, you might need to hold down FN whenever you want to do something like Alt F4 to close a program or F7 for spell check.  On Lenovo laptops, this is called auto hot key support.  I had to get somebody to help me turn that off in my BIOS.
It's probably called something similar on other brands.  Other than that, Narrator will be good enough until you can install JAWS or NVDA.

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Yes, this is possible. You can start Narrator by hitting the
control+Windows+enter key combination.

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