Close-up of the F9, F10, F11, and F12 function keys on a keyboard - Professor25/Getty Images For almost every PC or Mac user, a keyboard and either a mouse or a trackpad are more than enough to ...

If you take a look at your laptop's keyboard, you'll notice that the top row keys have icons printed above, with "F" and a number, like F1, F2, and so on, below each one. These are known as function ...