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Using Your VAIO Computer

Using the Keyboard

Your keyboard is very similar to a desktop computer keyboard, but has additional keys that perform model-specific tasks.

Combinations and Functions with the Fn Key

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Some keyboard functions can be used only after the operating system finished launching.

Combinations/Feature

Functions

 

 

 

Fn + % (F2): speaker switch

Turns on and off the built-in speakers and the headphones.

 

 

 

Fn + 8 (F5/F6): brightness control

Adjusts the LCD brightness of your computer screen.

 

 

 

 

To increase lighting intensity, press Fn+F6 and then M or ,, or keep pressing Fn+F6.

 

 

 

 

To decrease lighting intensity, press Fn+F5 and then m or <, or keep pressing Fn+F5.

 

 

 

 

 

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/T (F7): display output

Toggles among your computer screen, an external display, and simultaneous output to both.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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(F9/F10): zoom

Changes the view size of your screen.

 

To make the screen view look smaller and further away (zoom out), press Fn+F9.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To make the screen view look bigger and closer (zoom in), press Fn+F10.

 

 

 

 

See the help file on VAIO Control Center for more information.

 

 

 

 

 

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(F12): hibernate

Provides for the lowest level of power consumption. When you execute this command, the

 

 

states of the system and the connected peripheral devices are saved to the hard disk drive and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the system power is turned off. To return the system to its original state, use the power button

 

 

 

 

to turn on the power.

 

 

 

 

For details on power management, see Using the Power Saving Modes (page 102).