Acer Aspire 5 - Function keys aren't working correctly

Have an Acer Aspire 5 here, just bought it recently. I didn't want all the bloatware on it, so I reinstalled windows. Now the touchpad won't work? I think it's because of the function keys, and I need to enable it. Normally Fn + f7 would do it, but the function keys aren't assigned to their correct values either. For example, brightness up does brightness down, and some just don't work. I assume its a driver issue, so if anyone could point me in the way of FN key drivers or something like that...

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Tom2019

Flynn
On your laptop keyboard, press the Fn key and the F6 or F7 key (the function key with a touchpad icon

on it) at the same time. if this is not working try ON SCREEN KEYBOARD try with FN+F6 or F7 to re-enable touchpad

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Flynn

@Tom2019 None of these work. Nothing happens at all when I press FN + F7 or FN + F6. And I have tried just pressing F6/F7. Think the problem is a bit more in depth then that. Do you know of any more fixes I could do?

Jashandeep

My screen on/off function key is not working rest are working and now my laptop is in a stage that screen is always off and I can see screen by reflections, but monitor works fine. Plz help

JesterGirl

I had the same issue, and none of the above helped me. I needed to F5 to get my saved game features and it just would not work. I went into settings and turned off the touchpad that way and then the Function keys were working once again. I hope this is of help.😊

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