Forum Topic: Most Useless Key On Your Keyboard?

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At 3/15/09 10:04 PM, Kolpols wrote: the pause/break key

Lolnoob. It goes to the boot configuration screen when you start up your computer.

Anyway, I'd have so say the Apple button on a mac computer. Instead of having a control key to right lcik, they could actually just add another click to the mouse and let the Control key do the same thing that a windows does, instead of that odd Apple key.


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I'm on a mac so the "Help" button

I don't think i've ever used it and i just pressed it then and nothing happened.


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caps lock alllll the way its so anoying i like my good OLD SHIFT ITS FUN

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I would probly have to say the F12 key I have never pushed it......hold on......WTF IT DOES NOTHING >:-(


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I know that laptops need a Fn key for combinations, but why would you push Fn+1 to get 1, or Fn+2 to get 2, and on and on. Also, the F12 key has no purpose, even in games.

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the off button

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Same here, the pause / break key. I've never used it since I started using computers, I'm talking like 9 years ago. I don't even know what it does, seriously.

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FYI, "Scroll Lock" has a use. If you go into excel, using the arrows on the keyboard makes the cursor move from one cell to the next. If scroll lock is on, the cursor stays in place and the entire excel sheet moves instead.

But yeah, worthless key none the less.

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pg up Seriously, why not just scroll?


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something like ; insert, f15-f12, pause/break, scroll lock

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the grave accent key: ' it was primarily put on most QWERTY keyboards in order to put accents on letters, which I don't. I don't play many PC games either if you use that key in a game.

You can find it below the tilde ~ on most keyboards but not all.

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At 3/15/09 03:24 PM, MadiiMonsterr wrote: I don't beleive I have ever used the Fn key, or the Page Up/Page Dn keys.

Fn is very useful if you're used to using the numpad for writing numbers and you're on a laptop, the page up/down keys are very useful when you're scrolling through 40+ pages of weird stuff in a word doc.

Furthermore the Win key is v. useful I use it every day win+D is minimize everything which is awesome.

End is also useful, takes you to the end of a line, V. useful!

On my laptop it's the 3 keys åøæ because I never use it for writing anything but English...on my home computer it's the 4 "Favourite"-keys...never used them.


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The enter key. Because there's an Enter key and a Return/Enter key. So I don't need the enter key.

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At 3/15/09 10:43 PM, WATCHurFLAG wrote: The fact that there is two "Alt" Keys.

Actually one of them is alt gr and it wields all the power of alt+shift.


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I would have to say "Pause Break," whatever that is.

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My keyboard has more keys than your mother has STIs. I've never used Pause Break before, only key I've not used.


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F11. All it does is move the windows to the side, and my desktops always suck.

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F9 is totally useless for me. No command is with this button.


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truthfully you're right that's the key on our keyboard was the one that i never ever used

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teh " scroll lock " cuz I dunno what its used for XD


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The right hand ctrl and alt keys see no love from me.


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the any key lololololololololololololol

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The Pause/Break key.

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The "¬`|" key.

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The Esc key.

I never use it unless I play Halo and I want to get out of the game. Other than that it doesn't do anything important unless I press it to try and escape something I don't want, while pressing alt-F4 and Ctrl-alt-delete and the window key.

Also the Pause break button. I never use it unless I am testing out my new keyboard.

Also I use the Scroll lock a lot for Xfire other than that I don't ever use it though.

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At 3/15/09 10:56 PM, Anozke wrote: I know that laptops need a Fn key for combinations, but why would you push Fn+1 to get 1, or Fn+2 to get 2, and on and on.

I use it with Netbooks, but if you ask me on laptops it's pretty useless.

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