
Follow these steps to enable them.īIOS settings are not a part of your operating system and they have to be accessed during the initial stage of your laptop’s boot process. If your function key for backlight is not working, the function keys may have been disabled. You can speed up your typing speed with these Changing action key settings from BIOS Not sure about your laptop’s pre-installed software? Download it from the official site of your laptop manufacturer.


Look for an icon that resembles a keyboard light and press that button.

Nowadays, most of the laptops come with a backlit keyboard, so if you own a fairly new laptop model, regardless of the price, it should have a backlight keyboard. A backlight keyboard is still a standard chiclet keyboard with lights underneath the keys, that’s it. In laptops, almost all keyboards are chiclet membrane keyboards which are made for a smaller form factor than a traditional desktop keyboard. There isn’t much difference between a backlight keyboard and a standard keyboard.
