Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Press the F5, F9, or F11 key to turn your HP laptop keyboard light on or off. Some HP laptops need the Fn key pressed with the ...

Researcher Michael Myng was trying to work out how to control the backlight on an HP laptop keyboard. What he found instead was that the keyboard driver used by 475 models of HP laptops contained a ...

"The backlight can be turned off by pressing F5 (or Fn-F5), and while disabling it can improve the contrast, it also leaves a distractingly bright light turned on behind the F5 key." There's an option ...