Keyboard Problems (F Keys)

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Hey all,

So my dad is having a problem with a DOS program that he often uses within his virtual WinXp on his new macbook. Neither of us are really mac inclined, but he'd like to use this program without the use of our normal windows machine.

anywho, theres a number of keyboard shortcuts for this program.

f2, f5, f6, f7, shift+f7, f9, f10

so basically, we'd like to remap the f keys at the top of the keyboard to their normal functions in dos/windows, and the shift button for that one hotkey combo

is there a simple option to remap everything? or will we have to look into some program to run a keyboard script or sometihng like that?

thanks alot!
 
Most probably, your dad's MacBook has F keys mapped to hardware features.

To have them passed to Parallels, just press the Fn button together with the keys. Say, Fn+F2, Fn+F5, Shift+Fn+F7
 
Is there a way (or for that matter, any downside) to binding that Fn key permanently at some point before opening the dos program (either when parallels launches, when xp boots, when that dos program launches, etc..)?

Thanks for the speedy reply!

Jordan
 
Click Apple icon in the top-right, select System Preferences->Keyboard&Mouse and select the "Use the F1-F12 keys to control software features" checkbox.
 
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