Lenovo Laptop Function Keys Permanently Mapped To Alternative Use

This issue was rendering my lenovo laptop unusable, I couldn't use F5 to refresh in a browser, various applications that had the function keys mapped to functionality (search, replace, etc) were useless. Finally, on a lenovo forum I found the following: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/11e-Windows-E-and-Edge-series/Persistently-lock-function-keys/td-p/1358503 So the solution is to press the function key + ESC to reset the function keys to standard use. Panic over