By default, the keyboard on the Lenovo laptop or any other is in active mode, and the need for its inclusion appears when there are various problems with pressing specific keys or everything. Therefore, the main information in this article is just focused on solving popular faults, and you can only find a suitable way.
Method 1: Unlock Keyboard
Certain models of laptops, including from Lenovo, are equipped with a special function that allows you to temporarily block the keyboard, for example, to clean it from dust or perform other actions that require physical interaction with the keys. Most often, it is this feature that becomes the cause of stamp problems. Check out the general guidance on this topic by clicking on the following link to understand whether such an option is supported on your laptop model and how to turn it off.
Read more: Methods for unlocking keyboard on a laptop
Method 2: Enable through "Device Manager"
Sometimes users replace the keyboard on a laptop or connect to it additional using a USB cable. Extremely rarely, the device switches to the off state and requires activation through a special menu in the operating system. However, such a situation happens, but it is solved as follows:
- Click on the "Start" menu by right-click and from the context menu that appears, select Device Manager.
- In a new window, expand the keyboard section.
- Find a string with the name of the keyboard used there (if an additional device is not connected, most likely, in the section there will be only one suitable line). Click on the PCM and select "Properties".
- Click the "Driver and pay attention to the second button below. If it is written "Enable the device", press it and check if the keyboard has earned. Otherwise, go to the next method.
Method 3: Turning on the function keys
Often laptop holders face that only certain keys are operating on the keyboard, which in most cases f1-F12 and their combinations with the Fn key. To begin with, we will understand the key called Fn, which is needed to start certain functions inherent in the specific model of the laptop. If the combinations data do not work, go to the article on the link below and read the information provided there.
Read more: Enable and disable the Fn key on a laptop
The following situation concerns the digital block and the F1-F12 keys. In the first case, the blocking is performed by pressing only one key on the keyboard, the re-pressing on which unlocks the entire block. If you do not care, the F1-F12 keys should check the BIOS settings that are responsible for using the function keys. Perhaps you have to change the setting so that the keys values are by default, and the functions were performed only when combined with Fn.
Read more:
How to enable the F1-F12 keys on a laptop
How to turn on the digital key block on the laptop
Method 4: Turning on the on-screen keyboard
Sometimes the user understands that the physical keyboard on its laptop does not work for certain circumstances or other reasons arise in starting its screen counterpart. If you enable the keyboard, you mean the transition to the on-screen version, the following instruction is for you.
- Open the Start menu and go to "Parameters".
- Among the tiles list, find "Special Features" and click on it with the left mouse button.
- On the left pane, you are interested in the "Interaction" block and the keyboard item.
- Activate the "Use on-screen keyboard" slider.
- A new window with keys will appear on the screen for which you want to press LKM to activate specific characters.
Solving problems with keyboard operation
If the above methods (except for the fourth) did not bring any result, most likely, the keyboard on Laptop from Lenovo simply does not work. There is a huge number of reasons for the occurrence of such a problem, respectively, each of them will have to be checked manually by searching for a suitable solution. Auxiliary instructions on this topic can be found by clicking on the following header. In the article below, all the options that can help cope with this problem are disassembled.
Read more: Why the keyboard does not work on Lenovo laptop
