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I've bought a new laptop with windows 7 and just realised that it doesn't have a number pad function like my old laptop did. I used to be able to press the Fn key on my old laptop and have access to using 'iopkl;' as a number pad.

Is there any software (ideally free) that would give me this ability back?

Thanks,

Dave
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AutoHotKey can help you. It's free and opensource application, which can be used for keyboard remappings. With this program you can do some remappings. For example, you should be able to remap "RightAlt+i", ..., "RightAlt+;" to the number pad keys. You can see an example here. You can download it from the official website.

You can follow the instruction in the "Special keys" subsection of the official documentation to determine, if it's relatively easy to remap Fn key in the case of your laptop. If Fn key is observed by the "Key History" page, then the "Special keys" page explains, how to remap it. Otherwise it may be hard to remap it (here is my question about it).

Edit: You may also like to see a very detailed guide "The Mystery of the FN Key", written in the comment below by Synetech.

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