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How to stop F1 bringing up the Virtual PC Help

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The other day I had someone contact me with this question:

“I am running a program in Windows Virtual PC where I need to use the F1 key to bring up help information inside the virtual machine.  However, whenever I press F1 the Windows Virtual PC help comes up instead.  How to I get the F1 key to go to the virtual machine and not to Virtual PC?”

The answer to this is quite simple.  If you open the virtual machine settings, go to the Keyboard entry and select To the virtual machine:

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Then all key combinations – including F1 – will be sent to the virtual machine.  There are some problems with this though:

  1. This setting is per-virtual machine – so you need to set it on each virtual machine manually (the default setting is In full screen view only)
  2. You cannot change this while the virtual machine is running – so you will need to hibernate / turn off the virtual machine first

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 27, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    November 12, 2013
    Sorry but this don.t work , still when i press F1 in XP mode i see Virtual PC HELP

  • Anonymous
    April 14, 2014
    No, this simply doesn't work.  It would've been nice if they'd tested this out before posting it as a solution.

  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2014
    It works if you follow all of the instructions, including the one that says you can't change the setting while the machine is running. I shut down XPMode completely, made the change, and restarted it. Voila! F1 now belongs to me rather than VPC Help.

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2016
    This works perfectly. Sorry it took so long to find this solution. Solves my problem!Thanks for the solution.

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2017
    It works - thank you

  • Anonymous
    October 22, 2017
    I need some help with your instruction.You say that, "You cannot change this while the virtual machine is running – so you will need to hibernate / turn off the virtual machine first"Ok, but, if I hibernate or turn off the virtual machine, then my option to Goto:Virtual machine settings > Keyboard entry and select "To the virtual machine" is no longer available.So how do I get to the Virtual Machine Settings with the Virtual Machine shutdown or hibernated??Thanks!