Application of direct launch buttons are driving me crazy

I have a portable game Alienware Area-51 m9750 running Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit, which I use almost exclusively for playing World of Warcraft. There, above the function keys on the keyboard, some application direct launch buttons, which are an absolute nightmare. I'm 6'3 "and 215 lbs, and my hands are big, so when I play world of Warcraft, in hectic battles, I hit keys so quickly that the tips of my left index finger and the middle finger sometimes graze my buttons of Internet Explorer and Windows Mail.

My record after a session of WoW currently amounts to 49 (Yes, forty-nine, quatre-neuf) copies to open Internet Explorer, and a copy of Windows Mail (I use never either of these programs for anything, I use Firefox for two web e-mail and browsing the Web), but gets powerful WoW slow when it is competing with forty-nine copies of Internet Explorer for system resources.

I've been Googling this for hours, and the search for Alienware sites so Microsoft, but I can't find a single post on how to disable or turn off otherwise these buttons clearly unnecessary and very annoying.

I went into the Device Manager and concluded that, to my dismay, the "Disable" option for all the five direct application launch buttons is gray and I suppose that if I type "Uninstall", Windows will be simply to detect them and reinstall them immediately or my computer crash, because they seem to be part of my motherboard.

I'm about to take a great (sharp) to flat head screwdriver and tear them on my computer, but something tells me that would do much more harm than good (like computers in general do not respond well to the reckless material withdrawal fueled by the frustration of extreme users).

If someone could tell me how I can disable these infernal devices permanently (at least what I've voluntarily turn on again them), so I never need to think about them, ever, that would be great. They are nothing more that a nuisance, I have no need practice nor application for them either, and I want that they GONE.

I finally found the answer this question on my own.  While looking through the manual to use my computer for anything else, I found a section on keyboard special functions.  It seems that my live ever-so-annoying application launch buttons can be disabled (and then activated again) simply by pressing the Fn and F11 keys at the same time and I did it, and they are bothering me is no longer.

You have my sincere apologies for wasting your time, I feel really silly about it.

Thank you very much!

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