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I'm quite upset right now.

In general, I have to repeatedly hit F10 to work in biab on my laptop. { to play sections} However, I don't know about other laptops -- but F10 is the wifi main control switch on my laptop.

Unfortunately repeated hammering of this some how short circuits everything, and disables wifi -- badly.

It's had bad effects before. But this time it totally disabled wifi, where I couldn't do anything to fix it.

This was to the point I had to start massive trouble shooting: searching for drivers, thinking about reinstall windows 7 etc.

I also inadvertently erased a valuable data hard drive in all the confusion.

Is there anyway to remap these hotkeys?

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I can feel your frustration.

To start BIAB, do you right-click on the shortcut and select "Run as administrator"? This is different from logging in into Windows as admin when you boot-up.

The problem that you are experiencing sounds like it might be a "Run as administrator" problem.

This can be set permanently by

1. right-clicking on the start up shortcut

2. selecting "Properties"

3. Under the "Compatibility" tab, selecting "Run as administrator"

4. I also run BIAB by setting the Compatibility Mode as XP (Service pack 3) -- also under the "Compatibility" tab.

Let us know if this helps.

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I've just had a look through Help and the shortcut keys and I see what you mean by F10 and looping (it's not something I use).

As far as I know, BIAB does not allow mapping of keys. This is done at the programming level

With the above in mind, it sounds like you'd be better off using the "Loop section" dialogue window that I've highlighted on the graphic below.

If your BIAB view is different from mine, use CTRL+T to change views.

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hi Noel96,


With the above in mind, it sounds like you'd be better off using the "Loop section" dialogue window that I've highlighted on the graphic below.

Looks promising. I will try it. thanks a lot.

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Originally Posted By: KGU 2
I'm quite upset right now.

In general, I have to repeatedly hit F10 to work in biab on my laptop. { to play sections} However, I don't know about other laptops -- but F10 is the wifi main control switch on my laptop.
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Is there anyway to remap these hotkeys?



The key WiFi is usually activated/deactivated using Fn+F10 unless you have it set in the BIOS to work as Laptop's Hardware Functions without holding the Fn as well and use the Fn + F1 F2 F3 etc.. for Windows functions.

If you want an easy way to set up any Custom Functions use Free Biab Chord Picker Tool Update beta 2.0e under the Tools tab.

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You can also use the L key with a number indicating the total section you want to loop. Select the measure you want your loop to begin. Your song must have been generated before this procedure works.

Hit L and the number indicating how many bars the loop will contain and Enter.


For instance:

Select measure 22

enter L4 <Enter>

Measures 22,23,24,25 loop

Select a measure and enter L25 and 25 measures loop. L1 loops the current measure and so on.

This feature can also be accessed from the Loop Dialog Window.


Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 04/25/18 01:42 AM.

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Ahhh... Charlie... you're a legend!!! Thank you. I'd completely forgotten that shortcut.


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Everyone, in case it matters, the OP is using BIAB 2014. This came up in another recent thread.


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Just from a quick read it seems like the OP is confusing f10 itself with f10 plus the function key. It should be function and f10 to toggle the wifi. If it wasn't like that, the laptop would have no function keys at all.


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KGU 2,

What brand and model laptop are you using? As others have noted it may be possible to go into the laptop bios and change the behavior of the F10 key. However, there is no way for us to investigate that option without knowing what hardware you're using.


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Yep, on my HP laptop, the default was to use the special secondary operations on the function keys by just hitting the function keys (volume up/down, wifi, etc.). The actually use the function keys themselves, you had to press the little blue Fn key (to the left of the space bar) plus the function key.

However, you could reverse this behavior in the BIOS (which is what I do). That's what it sounds like is the problem to me (as others have also noted).


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Thanks Noel! That helped me too. Now I run EVERYTHING as admin and it seems to "smooth" a lot of things out. And the permanent solution is neat and saves time! JZ


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Originally Posted By: johnnyzell
Thanks Noel! That helped me too. Now I run EVERYTHING as admin and it seems to "smooth" a lot of things out. And the permanent solution is neat and saves time! JZ

Hi Johnny,

I'm glad the information was useful!

All the best,
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