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Physical buttons

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Hardware buttons let users perform many common tasks that do not have a convenient user interface alternative. For the scenarios addressed in this section, the hardware buttons are typically used for tasks that occur while the physical keyboard is not available to the user, on form factors such as convertibles or slates.

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Button behavior

This topic describes the expected behavior of hardware buttons.

Button reporting

The in-box general-purpose I/O (GPIO) button driver reports to Windows, based on the interrupts that are received on the defined GPIO resources of the button array.

See also Button implementation.