Although the vast majority of the time computers have an operating system, they still have several functions in common. Some of these functions are mostly related to what has to do with the mouse or if not with the keyboard.
The scroll block is one of these common functions that all computers have no matter what system they have installed. Next, it will explain how to disable or enable the scroll lock on your computer and why sometimes it does not activate.
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- What are the steps to turn scroll lock on and off?
- from your laptop
- Using your PC
- Why won’t the scroll lock function activate?
- from your PC
- using your laptop
What are the steps to turn scroll lock on and off?
The scroll lock is a function that is enabled through the keyboard and this function, when activated, is in charge of alternating two specific tasks . These specific tasks have to do with changing the displacement of your cursor in order to type and also to scroll the screen down a bit.
This is what the ‘Scroll Lock’ function takes care of, which is activated by means of a single key. This only key is the one with small letters that say ‘Scroll Lock’, which is sometimes not as a loose key, but is inside the ‘Delete’ button.
This button has always been built into the keyboard so you can perform scroll lock. However, it is not widely used because other buttons on the keyboard may serve part of the function that scroll lock can perform.
Now, since you clearly know what the scroll lock is for inside a computer, you need to see how it is activated. The way in which this recovery function is activated will vary if your computer is a laptop or a desktop computer.
from your laptop
Follow the directions below so you can learn how to enable the ‘Scroll Lock’ feature within your laptop:
- Locate yourself on the virtual desktop when you access your computer
- Hold down the ‘FN’ key
- Then, go on to press the ‘Scroll Lock’ key to activate the function
In case the above process does not help you to activate the scroll lock, you can choose to only press this button once. When you want to turn off the scroll lock, just gently press the ‘Scroll Lock’ button again and the feature should turn off.
This is just one of the things you can achieve if you learn to use each of the combinations that you have on the keyboard. With the keyboard there is a way to take screenshots of the screen of a computer that has a Windows operating system.
In addition, computers that have a Mac system allow you to resend the deletion of a text using certain combinations within the keyboard . This function is very helpful when you accidentally delete certain content and want to recover it.
Using your PC
PC is short for ‘Portable Computator’ which in this case would be a laptop computer. However, many people call them PC because it is easy to remember and simple to pronounce, but what they want to refer to is desktop computers.
Now, the following is to show the process to activate the scroll lock in Windows from a desktop computer:
- When you are on the virtual desktop, press the ‘Scroll Lock’ key to activate the scroll lock
- When you want to deactivate this function, just press the ‘Scroll Lock’ key again and that’s it
It is important that you know that sometimes, due to the type of language that you have assigned to the keyboard, it tends to have the function of the ‘Scroll Lock’ key deactivated. The times this happens, the following can be done to enable scroll lock:
- Go to the options menu of your computer
- Find the on-screen keyboard and open it
- Then look for the keyboard button ‘Scroll Lock’
- Lastly, press that button on the screen and the option will turn on and stay on. To deactivate it, you would only have to reopen the on-screen keyboard and press that key again
It’s worth noting that after you’ve finished learning how to activate your keyboard’s scroll lock, you can see how the brightness is adjusted using the keyboard . With this, you will learn to graduate the light of the monitor so as not to damage your eyesight.
Why won’t the scroll lock function activate?
Sometimes the ‘Scroll Block’ cannot be activated. This is caused by certain things that vary a lot. What we are going to explain to you in the last two subtopics are some of the reasons for this failure:
from your PC
In the case of desktop computers, these may fail due to a problem with the keyboard language or because the ‘Scroll Lock’ key is damaged. The only two ways to fix this issue is by using the on-screen keyboard or else by changing the keyboard or keyboard language.
using your laptop
With laptops, the problem is often caused by system crashes , these things are disabling the ‘Scroll Lock’ key and more. The only thing that can be done in this case is to download a virtual keyboard program or else use the virtual keyboard of your computer.