Jack and Pat
drawbridgej at sympatico.ca
Thu Mar 25 14:10:15 CDT 2010
Rocky, I have searched looking for Dell Inspiron 1545 Pause/Break key issues. I did not find a specific reference to the 1545, but I did find the following that you may want to pursue. This is at: http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19285247/19520977.aspx#19520977 Question in Dell Community: Hi everybody, I've just received my brand new Studio 1555 Laptop but I was disconcerted when I noticed that there is no PAUSE/BREAK key. This is a key that I actually need for a few applications. Could you please let me know which is the shortcut to reproduce the PAUSE key? Along the same line, it looks like that also the embedded numerical keypad (i.e. small blue numbers on JKL UIO 789) is gone. That was useful to type accented letters with FN+ALT+0234 (and the like). Any way to reproduce that behaviour? Thank you for your assistance. H. Response: H, I too was surprised to see the Pause/Break missing. Looks like Dell decided it is more important to have a cd eject button instead of the Pause/Break. I am a programmer and need that key for debuggining purposes. Fortunately, I was able to remap the F10 key to be Pause/Break. There is a greak free keyboard remapping program called smartkey which can be downloaded from <http://www.randyrants.com/2008/12/sharpkeys_30.html> http://www.randyrants.com/2008/12/sharpkeys_30.html Here is the registry setting for setting the F10 to act as the Pause/Break in Win XP. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,46,e0,44,00,00,00,00,00 Another suggestion at the site was to Re: Dell Studio 1555: missing PAUSE/BREAK key 11 Aug 2009 02:16PM Try... Start, search. Type osk hit enter. The On Screen keyboard will display and you can use the pause/break key from there. Good luck , Jack