The "Home" button on Vostro/Inspirons. What's it do?

If you own a Vostro or Inspiron (this button may be on other models as well, I don't know), you'll know what I'm talking about.

Beside the power button, there's a button with a house on it. What's it do exactly? I've tried pressing it and nothing has occured. I thought it was a media key to navigate to the Home page, but that doesn't happen when I press it.

Is there any way to configure what that key does, or is it a Dell specific button that cannot be mapped?

 

It is the MediaDirect button. See here: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/odg/media_direct_jump?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

A little search goes a long way.....

 

ya....its for dell media direct and u can boot into it when u press the key with windows shutted down....it can also be used while running windows ...and it is a dell pre mapped button and i think it can't be re mapped.

You will get something like this on your inspiron or vostro when u press it...

 

You can remap it in Windows using AutohotKey.

 

Hehe, thanks. But I had no idea it was even called MediaDirect... How would I search for it? By typing in "The home button on dell" ?

And how do I exactly do that? I don't even know the button id of the "MediaDirect" button.

 

Well, you could read your manual You could also press it and find out what happens (I seriously doubt Dell is going to put a self-destruct button on a laptop so you don't need to worry too much)....

 

I did press it, and nothing occured . That's why I asked... haha.
In my initial post:

ANYways... I've remapped it to the Scroll Lock key (since I have to press Fn + Num Lock otherwise to get to it).

If anyone wants to know the SC code for it, it's 112 .