[g8or8de]

Hey everyone,

I'm new to the forum, so I apologise if I miss anything out.

Just last week I bought an Acer Aspire 5738G laptop.

The laptop came loaded with a bunch of programs that I didn't want, so I uninstalled a whole lot of them ("Orion", eSobi, McAfee Trial Version, Office 2007 Trial Version, Office 2007 compatibility pack, Oberon game packs etc..).

The problem is that after I uninstalled the extra programs, the F8 key on the keyboard doesn't respond when I try pressing it in applications like Windows Media Player, or even Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint etc.

However, I know the key is still physically functional, since when I press the F8 in conjunction with the "function" button (Fn + F8), it mutes the laptop.

I was also able to access the Safe Mode menu by pressing F8 during startup.

I called Acer, and they said to do a system restoration.

When I did restore the system back to factory settings, all the programs that I didn't want, which came with the laptop, were installed again... but the F8 key was working.

I thought the computer was fixed, so removed the unwanted programs... and now it's back to only working when pressed with the "Fn" button (ie the F8 key only works when I press it with "Fn").

I really don't want to do a system restore again, and I don't know why the F8 key isn't working - all other F1, F2, F3 etc are working.

Can someone help me with this problem?

[thebest]

well u should go where u bought it and tell them, and how many G does it has?

[g8or8de]

The specs are: Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 (2.0 Ghz, 800 Mhz)
4GB DDR3 RAM
320GB HDD
NVIDIA Geforce G105M

I don't think it's a problem with the keyboard itself, but possibly due to a software issue. I have no idea which program is causing this problem.

Maybe there's a setting to remedy this?

[thebest]

wat windows do u have?

[g8or8de]

Using Windows Vista Premium on the laptop.

[thebest]

well vista has a lot of errors too....well try this download regcure u can get it free at it wedsite

[1002richards]

Hi,
General consensus here at TSG is not to use Registry Cleaners as they can cause more harm than good.
As your machine is new & under warranty I'd return it for repair (if required). If you use a reg cleaner or other prog that causes problems you may void your warranty.

Richard

This extract from another thread here at TSG:
http://forums.techguy.org/6657814-post1.html
http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-...-computer.html
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=643
http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-...gcure-any.html
http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-...y-cleaner.html
http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-...g-cleaner.html
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vi...file-lost.html

Even if registry cleaners actually worked and did what they are supposed to safely, what would be the net gain?

I have over 800,000 entries in my registry. So let's say 1 million as a good approximation. So if we also assume that the "speed" of the registry is an inverse relationship, in other words, if it were half as large, it would be twice as fast, how much would this cleaner actually speed things up?

If it found 5,000 "errors" (they aren't really errors, but let's assume they are since the cleaners do), then the increase in the speed of the registry would be 5000/1000000, or 0.005, or 1/2%. So in other words, by running a registry cleaner and remocving 5000 entries (which is more than most find) and risking serious damage to your installation and programs, you have succeeded in increasing the speed by 1/2 of 1% (if it were even true in the first place that registry access speed is dependent on size in this way, which it isn't).

Does that seem worth it to you?

Registry "defraggers" ("compactors") may actually improve your registry access speed, however. These tools do not hack out possibly needed entries like "cleaners" do. They simply rebuild the registry, leaving out blank space and reducing the size. Auslogics may be one of the best since it does the compaction offline on the next machine boot. But it is no longer free.

Free registry defragmenters (compressors):

NTREGOPT - http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
RegCompact.NET - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categor...egCompact.html
WinASO RegDefrag - http://www.winaso.com/
Free Registry Defrag - http://www.registry-clean.net/free-registry-defrag.htm

Thanks to elvandil for that info.