Assigning Unused Multimedia Keys?

[lamborgini8]

I have an Acer laptop that I recently rebuilt and using for work... However I wanted to use the Windows power management system instead of the Acer one, so I didn't bother installing it.

That has left me with 4 spare keys on the keyboard. Two at the top which were used as short cuts to the Acer power management and two on the front of the laptop that were used for wifi and bluetooth (which never worked in the first place).

Is there a way to assign these keys to do anything? Google tells me how to assign actual keyboard buttons as short cuts but the buttons are not actually a part of the keyboard.

 

[Andy.]

What OS are you using? There are some tweak tools which will map some of the media keys, like the powertoys one for XP.

 

[lamborgini8]

What OS are you using? There are some tweak tools which will map some of the media keys, like the powertoys one for XP.

Funny enough I am running XP Home.

I just searched for powertoys and found the Miccrosoft page but what exactly is it I should be looking for? There are loads of different tweak tools and such but see nothing for keyboards.

 

[Andy.]

Tweak UI is the one you are after.

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

 

[lamborgini8]

Tweak UI is the one you are after.

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

It looked promising but it didn't work quite as expected... It only lets you change command keys that are on the actual keyboard. It also doesn't tell me what keys already do what, it just has "perform default action" set for all keys. ie. save is set to perform default.

http://www.jino.se/spaw/images/lib1/TM2410-11.jpg

Theres the laptop I have... It's the silver keys on the top and there are two keys on the front of the laptop to the left of the mic and earphone sockets.

 

[Cookie]

What about the Acer site?

 

[lamborgini8]

What about the Acer site?

There's nothing on there as Acer originally put the keys on the laptop for their own power management software which I don't use.

 

[Andy.]

Pity. I have used it to map my media keys (mute, play etc) to launch other programs (nircmd to hide a firefox window at the touch of a button has saved me a couple of times at work!).

I'm all out of ideas if that didn't work. Sorry matey.