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What does the Scroll Lock key do?

April 16, 2004 9:42:15 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Well, I guess thats about the extent of this thread. Therefore, once the question is answered, lets hijack this thread for something else equally pointless. Hows that sound?

First question: "What does the Scroll Lock key do?"
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Reply #1 April 16, 2004 10:11:10 PM
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I don't know what it does now, but I think it used to be used to 'pause' the screen when you were listing a directory in MS-Dos. If I remember right "DIR /P" would list the directory in pages, therefore no need for the Scroll Lock key
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Reply #2 April 16, 2004 10:21:33 PM
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Ahh. Cool!

Another question: On the side of my Print Screen key, it says SysRq. What does this mean?
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Reply #3 April 16, 2004 10:23:11 PM
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I use the scroll lock to secure my scroll bars in WindowBlinds....so other skinners can't steal them......
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Reply #4 April 16, 2004 10:24:42 PM
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BoXXi begins to worry that someone will ask about the "" key........
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Reply #5 April 16, 2004 10:25:32 PM
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@ the missing word: |nsert

Now who has the last laugh?

note: I love the edit feature!
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Reply #6 April 16, 2004 10:26:17 PM
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SysRq...no clue
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Reply #7 April 16, 2004 10:27:24 PM
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it was supposed to say i n s e r t .....hahah

 

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Reply #8 April 16, 2004 10:32:45 PM
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Boxxi....look again

SysRq key:
There is no standard use for the key. The BIOS keyboard routines in INT
16 simply ignore it therefore so do the DOS input routines in INT 21 as
well as the keyboard routines in libraries supplied with high-level
languages.


Hmm, found that in a major google search.
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Reply #9 April 16, 2004 10:39:36 PM
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The Insert key is easy. Try it, you'll see. It either s the newly typed text, or writes over it.

For Scroll Lock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_lock

For SysRq: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SysRq

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Reply #10 April 16, 2004 10:41:36 PM
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Justin: I could always d e l e t e your reply completely.......... Muwhahahahah......
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Reply #11 April 16, 2004 10:46:27 PM
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Or !nsert something new.

Cool link paxx! Thanks.

Question: What is the point of the NumLock key? Does anyone ever turn it off?
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Reply #12 April 16, 2004 11:57:41 PM
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I always have it off.

...It 'turns on' the numbers on the Numpad on the right of the Keyboard...
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Reply #13 April 17, 2004 6:24:21 AM
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scroll lock lets you scroll down a page with the up,down,left,right arrows
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Reply #14 April 17, 2004 7:25:35 AM
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...you can do that without
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Reply #15 April 17, 2004 9:09:46 AM
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Oh great, so those seemingly completely useless keys are in fact... completely useless.

NumLock, on the other hand, is not so useless. It lets the numeric pad (the right side of the keyboard) switch between numeric input or the ins/del/etcetera functions. Okay, so the entire numeric pad is redundant, but those keys do have different scancodes than their equivalents elsewhere on the keyboard, meaning that you can safely use 'em as hotkeys.

I've got NUM+ and NUM- mapped to volume up/down for instance, while NUM/ tells foobar to play a random track, etcetera.
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Reply #16 April 17, 2004 2:11:48 PM
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indeed. scroll lock is compeltely useless now. everything else on my keyboard sees a lot of use though.. print screen, pause/break.. now if i could make my keys work like an apple keyboard so i stop messing up all my shortcuts..
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Reply #17 April 17, 2004 2:15:14 PM
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Craeonics: Wow, sounds like a pretty good setup!
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Reply #18 April 17, 2004 7:32:06 PM
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Oh yeah, works fine for me. The only time I ever see the player is when messing with the playlist. The rest of the time, it's just hotkeys.
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Reply #19 April 17, 2004 7:35:24 PM
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thats why i got a keyboard with playback controls..
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