Re: Assigning Keyboard Buttons

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From: Ken Blake (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 12/26/04


Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 08:37:00 -0700

In news:%23R9Heu06EHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
Rick "Nutcase" Rogers <rick@mvps.org> typed:

> That would depend on the driver supplied by the manufacturer.
> If the
> custom keys are mappable, then the place to look is the
> keyboard
> applet in the control panel. Using a standard keyboard driver
> supplied by WindowsXP will not support the hotkeys, you need to
> ensure that you are using the manufacturer's driver set.

Another choice for Hank, if that doesn't work, is to overlay the
Windows calculator, at
%SystemRoot%\System32\calc.exe with the calculator of his choice.
Of course, that will make the Windows calculator unavailable, so
he may want to first rename it something else, so it's easy to
get back if he wants to.

-- 
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup
> "HankL" <hlaskin@bendnet.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Z6Ookt6EHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>I have a wireless keyboard.
>> Is there a way to assign buttons on my keyboard as an example 
>> I have
>> a calculator button and would like to use a calculator other 
>> than
>> the one that Windows supplies.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Hank Laskin 


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