Function Keys on Windows 8.1

Hi, New to these forums so I'm not totally sure this is where this needs to be, but going to give it a shot. I am wondering if there's a way to disable or edit what the Function Keys do on Windows 8.1. I have a Toshiba Satellite Laptop, it came with Windows 8 on it and I recently updated it to Windows 8.1. I play an online game which allows you to use Function Keys to use certain things in the game, but with the way it is right now, it just controls functions on the actual laptop (such as brightness, disable/enable touchpad and pause/play a song) but I am wanting to see if I can change some of them so that I can use a couple of them on the game I play. Thank you for your help in advance!

At the Start screen, activate the Charms Bar and click on Settings. Click on Change PC Settings and then click on Keyboard. There you have a choice of how the F keys work. The one you want is to require pressing the FN key plus an F Key to do the computer functions. That should leave the F key pressed by itself to do what you want.
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