Function key taken by another program, how to default it

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Published on 2012-09-18T15:41:47Z Indexed on 2012/09/18 21:41 UTC
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Everytime I press the F11 key it opens up a browser window with the same URL. This happens anywhere I press it and I need this key to have it's default behavior because I use it to program on Visual Studio (Windows 7).

Any ideas why this is happening and how to go back to default function keys?, I haven't installed anything that I remember can cause this behavior.

This is a standard Dell desktop key board, no multimedia keys, like this one:

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Firing URL is http://argos:8080/Login.jsp?jsessionid=55rh3obsahm9m

seems like one of our company's internal addresses but IT guys say they have no idea about it.

I don't see any suspicious software that can be causing this.

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