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2. In the Control Panel, click Power Options. 3. In the Power Options window, click the Choose what the power buttons do link in the left navigation pane. 4. Click the drop-down list for When I press the power button and When I press the sleep button options and select the action to be performed.
I'm Rodrigo and I'll help you. Press Windows Key + R, type powercfg.cpl and press enter. On the Power Options Menu, select > "Choose what the power buttons do" on the left menu > On "When I press the sleep button" set it to "Do nothing" and save changes. If I helped you anyway, It makes me happy.
Open the Control Panel. In the Control Panel, click Power Options. In the Power Options window, click the Choose what the power buttons do link in the left navigation pane. Hi, so my Aspire 7 model A715-72g-53F4 has the "Sleep mode" on the F1 key, and I usually use it by accident.
If you hit Fn+Esc, it locks the Fn key down so you don't have to hold it to use the Fn functions, including F1 to sleep. I must have pushed it accidentally. There isn't even an LED to tell you that it's on.
I have scoured the internet looking for a solution and the closest thing I found was to navigate to the "advanced power settings" in the control panel and change the "sleep button action" to "do nothing". Unfortunately this disables the use of the f1 key entirely, so it is hardly a solution.
Fn effectively changes the F1 key to the Sleep button. Since you told Windows to do nothing when the Sleep button is pressed, it does nothing. Everything is working exactly as expected here. Just press Fn and F1 at the same time if you want to keep Fn Lock active and still be able to use F1.
Yes you can change these settings in your bios. Boot in your bios setting and there you will find settings with Fn key in the advanced option of BIOS. You can go ahead and disable it easily.
In Windows, you can disable the power, sleep, and wake buttons. Review the options below for how to disable each button. Disable the computer's ACPI feature. To disable all three of these buttons, you can disable the computer's ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) feature in CMOS setup.
Step 1: Press the Windows key to launch the Start Menu, type Control Panel in the search bar, and press Enter. Step 2: Choose System and Security. Step 3: Choose the Power Options. Step 4: Click...
Enter sleep/hibernation mode. In the BIOS, the Post Behaviour section,the Keypad (Embedded) option is set to 'Fn Key Only' option by default. Change to 'By Numlock' otherwise, user will need to press and hold the FN + F2 keys in order to use the embedded number keys. Enable or disable Scroll Lock.