RobertHowie

Literally just a windows 10 upgrade, did nothing else. My guess is that the windows 10 upgrade might have updated some default drivers, and that the laptop then switched from the 'right' driver to the new windows drivers. But in classic windows style I found a lot of useless pages about updates, but nothing transparent saying how the update... updated whatever it updated. Clean install is quite drastic. But I might give it a go, or put mint on and see if the FN keys work inside there.

Hi guys, Hardware: Samsung 7 series laptop OS: Windows 10 Problem: Recently a windows 10 update broke my brightness hotkeys on my laptop. I used to be able to press fn+f2/f3 to adjust my brightness, but no longer! It is not that the function key is broken, the fn+f6/f7 still let me control the volume, and f2/f3 still work normally on their own. I still want the brightness functionality bound to those keys, I'm not here for advice on this issue!!! I have tried lots of fixes, drivers, updates, bios changes. Nothing works. I have given up fixing the root of the problem and just want a hack job to regain the functionality. I'm computer literate, so a registry change or hotkey macro thing would be great. Thanks, Rob!

Soooo It is possible then? I will actually have a look at ramdisk, seems like a good way to justify more upgrades to myself.

So I was thinking of upgrading my system again and was looking for bottlenecks, and it occurred to me that the main bottleneck for my system is probably the storage. Obviously I'm just going to get a new SSD, but I got thinking about systems with 128gb+ of ram, since the computer doesn't need even half of that, could you install your OS directly into the ram? This is just speculation, since no one wants their OS and key programs wiped every time you restart your pc, but is it possible in theory?