F Buttons (eg. F1, F2) have lost usual functions please help!
Bought my MacBook a few days ago and today I think I've done something inadvertently which has knocked all the shortcuts out of whack. For example, F1 has a sign on it to decrease the brightness on screen, F2 has one to increase, F3 I think is something to do with Expose and F4 has a dashboard thing on it, then F7 to F9 are various controls to fastforward/rewind things and F9,10 & 11 are sound related...however, none of these work now, they do different things and I don't know how to get them to go back to doing what I want. When I hold down the fn button they work but it's a pain because I can't turn my sound on and off otherwise, PLEASE help, I'm getting really frustrated!
Open System Preferences.
Select "Keyboard & Mouse".
Select "Keyboard".
Uncheck the box labeled "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys".
That should do it.
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Start here:
Repairing permissions is important, and should always be carried out both before and after any software installation or update.
Go to Disk Utility (this is in your Utilities Folder in your Application folder) and click on the icon of your hard disk (not the one with all the numbers).
In First Aid, click on Repair Permissions.
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Background information here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1452?viewlocale=en_US
and here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US
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Once that is complete reboot again from your usual start-up disk.
More useful reading here:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417?viewlocale=en_US
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