Forum Topic: Most Useless Key On Your Keyboard?

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I have an 'on/off' key on my keyboard, which when pressed turns on a very subtle light under the keyboard.

Damn you on/off key, why must you populate my already crowded keyboard :(


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The home button. I never even noticed it until I came to this thread.

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At 3/15/09 03:16 PM, The-Eagle wrote: Mine is the sleep key.
Press it by accident and yell fuck.

This.

I hate it when I put my drink down, because every now & how it taps the end of my keyboard, setting of the sleep key that's a huge pain in the dick to get rid of.

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At 3/15/09 04:16 PM, 066pop wrote:
At 3/15/09 04:09 PM, ijustfudgedyourmama wrote: the "any" key i can never find it and whenever im told to press it if i just hit a random key it will work!
That is sooo a gap in the market!

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At 3/15/09 03:11 PM, simon wrote: "End"

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I actually use that as the fraps recording key :P

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Those two. I have no idea what either of them are supposed to symbolise. They are rather useful for smilies though

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My "$" and "EU" keys since I live in Denmark.

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At 3/15/09 04:36 PM, Gewglz wrote: My "$" and "EU" keys since I live in Denmark.

That brings me to another topic, why isn't there a key that has a symbol for cents? If we have on for a dollar, where's cents? I have to search for characters to use, and it's kinda annoying.

I also remember I had a key on my original gateway computer that had a cow spot with the word "Help!" on it. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

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the tilde (~) key, can't say that i've ever used or ever will

pic below of the useless key

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my keyboard has a "TURBO" button, and i dont know what it does :S

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The INS Key, Under the 0 on the keypad?

Theres no way too press and find out what it does =[


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all of the most useless keys have been audited out of my keyboard, as i use a laptop.
apart from PAUSE break. what the fuck does it do?

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For me this has to be the right shift key. Regardless of whatever capitalization I need, I only ever use the left shift key.
Also, I don't think I've ever used the insert key before.


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At 3/15/09 03:12 PM, joabos wrote: It doesn't end anything, and apart from some times being used in games, it apparently has no use.

It takes you to the end of a page on the internet, but thats the only use i've found for it.

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I don't think I have ever used my specialised 'e-Management' button. It does nothing. So ronery... My poor 'e' key.


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CAPS LOCK LOLOLOLOL

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Probably the second Ctrl and Alt keys, since I only use the first ones. Maybe the whole number pad, that's a stupid one, too. Or insert... OH MY GOD I HATE INSERT!! Yes, the Insert key. Because I'm typing and then I have to go back and then all of a sudden I'm typing over my other stuff. GRAAAH!!! Annoying.


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Useless Keys:

SysRq
Scroll lock
Home
End
Pg Up
Pg Down
Pause/Break
AltGr

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The tlide (~) key is not useless, it is often the key to enable the console in games.

I'd have to say pause/break or insert.

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At 3/15/09 03:25 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: It's kind of a draw between these two:

I mean, why would you make buttons for this?

It's in case you don't have a mouse installed.


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The "Clear" key. It's only use is for the calculator but I always just whip an actual calculator anyway. No use in it.


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Scroll lock, page up/down, insert, and that little windows symbol.


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The a,e,i,o, and u keys

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Scroll lock is probably the most useless


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At 3/15/09 03:32 PM, BoboMcNipples wrote: probably this []{} key because all people really use it for is smileys on myspace

it's used for coding in Flash.


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the "home" key or the ~ key unless your playing a valve game


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The uses of most of the keys you have pointed out on this thread have been mentioned, but a few have been missed

Pause/break: Used to pause really old games (not used for that any more) also you can press windows key+pause/break to view your computer specs.

Still not sure what the `~ key does or the scroll lock.

However, one thing that no one has mentioned is that thing between the windows key and ctrl key (on the right side) I have no clue what it is and I have a picture that I googled to show you.

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