PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

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CHAPTER 18 Keyboards, Mice, and Pointing Devices 441 Copyright 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. ...

(^442) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide I nputdevicesservetwodistinctpurposesonaPC.First,theyallowtheusertocommand and control th ...

Chapter 18: Keyboards, Mice, and Pointing Devices^443 Keyboard Elements Most keyboard layouts are still a variation on the key l ...

(^444) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Alphabetic Keys These keys make u pthe main area of the keyboard, as illustrated in Figur ...

Chapter 18: Keyboards, Mice, and Pointing Devices^445  Character selection keys TheSHIFTkey is used to toggle a key between its ...

(^446) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Locking keys, which are theCAPS LOCK,NUM LOCK, andSCROLL LOCKkeys, also toggle between tw ...

Chapter 18: Keyboards, Mice, and Pointing Devices^447 Cursor Control Keys The 101-key design of the keyboard included a separate ...

(^448) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide  DELETE The function of this key is controlled by the software application running on th ...

Chapter 18: Keyboards, Mice, and Pointing Devices^449  Number/cursor keys When theNUM LOCKis toggled on (and theNUM LOCK LED is ...

(^450) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Special-Purpose Keys A few other keys on the keyboard are used only for very special purp ...

Chapter 18: Keyboards, Mice, and Pointing Devices^451 Windows Keys Most newer keyboards have added three Windows-specific keys o ...

(^452) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Figure 18-10. The two Windows-specific keys to the right of theSPACEBARare used to displa ...

Chapter 18: Keyboards, Mice, and Pointing Devices^453 Figure 18-12. The context menu for an application can be displayed by pres ...

(^454) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Keyboard Layouts and Styles Keyboards, regardless of which region of the world they are f ...

Chapter 18: Keyboards, Mice, and Pointing Devices^455 Windows Keyboards The current standard for keyboard layout is the Windows ...

(^456) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide which can vary from manufacturer to manufacturer or even from model to model, is normally ...

Chapter 18: Keyboards, Mice, and Pointing Devices^457 Figure 18-15. The keyboard on a notebook PC Figure 18-16. A multimedia key ...

(^458) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Keyboard Technology The function of the keyboard is to translate the movement of the user ...

Chapter 18: Keyboards, Mice, and Pointing Devices^459 status byte (which indicates if theSHIFT,CTRL, orALTkeys are in use) and t ...