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.
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.
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. ......
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
John
Laptop-HP Omen I7 Win11Pro 32GB 12TB SSD Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 12TB SATA
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
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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