What are the functions of the multimedia keys?

windows keyboard keyboard-layout

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F9 - Display Switch
F11 - Horizontal Display
F12 - Vertical Display Orientation

Depending on your driver and screen config these keys work... or not. I have the same keyboard and they don't work under win8.1.

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Jens Mühlenhoff

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Jens Mühlenhoff almost 2 years
I got a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop, but sadly the product manual does not explain the multimedia keys.

Some of them are easy to figure out:
- F1 - Play / Pause
- F2 - Mute audio
- F3 - Volume down
- F4 - Volume up
- F5 - Search
- F6 - Share
- F7 - Devices
- F8 - Settings
- F9 - ?
- F10 - Flip3D
- F11 - ?
- F12 - ?
I am using Windows 7, so F5 through F12 do not have any function (except for F10 which invokes Flip3D).

So what do F9 through F12 do on Windows 8?

PS: I have figured out how to program these keys, see my question - What are the virtual key codes for the Windows 8 specific multimedia keys? - from Stack Overflow.
- arielnmz about 10 years
  
  Could you please add a close up picture of the keys? I am unable to see them from my device, they're too small.
Jens Mühlenhoff about 10 years

Is this documented somewhere or did you find out by trial and error?
Dave about 10 years

I went through the online documentation and couldn't find it!