What does scroll lock do?

[hubbs]

I haven't the foggiest idea what it does. Could someone please enlighten me.

 

[Locutus of Board]

It locks your scroll silly!

 

[WombatWoman]

I have never encountered an actual use for Scroll Lock, but there's a brief definition here:

Scroll Lock key

 

It's an artifact from the command line days. I would stop the screen from scrolling down, like on a DIR. At least that's what I think it did. They should really get rid of it and replace it with something like the 10 useless extra keys on my MS Internet KB.

 

[konichiwa]

It was originally from the ancient times of computers when all data was stored on papyrus scrolls.

 

[Locutus of Board]

Koni......



ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[perry]

I have a belkin switch box at work for all the computers I work on. SCROLL LOCK - SCROLL LOCK - UP ARROW changes me to the next avaliable system. Switches the keyboard, monitor, and mouse. That's the only use I've ever found for it.