Congratulations on your purchasing this multimedia keyboard. Three convenient hot buttons are specially designed to save valuable mouse clicks and to save much your time. To use these three hot buttons, you have to install KeyMaestro keyboard driver first.
Please note that you have to uninstall the driver first if you want to re-install the driver.
Num
Lock: The KeyMaestro driver icon will show as
when you press the num lock button.
Caps Lock: The KeyMaestro driver icon will show as
when you press the caps lock button.
Scroll Lock: The KeyMaestro driver icon will show as
when you press the scroll lock button.
Three extra buttons are specially designed on the top of the keyboard. They can help you to easily access to Internet, and to control the system power.
If you have installed two browsers in your system, the system default one will be opened. Mostly the system default is the later installed one.
This key is reprogrammable and can be treated as a shortcut key also. If you want to change the setting, click the KeyMaestro icon on the taskbar and select Configuration command. For more details, please refer to the section Commands in the Menu.
This button is to help you to control the system's power. This function event (Sleep) is included in this special unique button. This function event is specified and performed by Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems. So no vendor-specified driver is needed to use them.
Same as Internet, this key is reprogrammable and can be treated as a shortcut key also. If you want to change the setting, click the KeyMaestro icon on the taskbar and select Configuration command. For more details, please refer to the section Commands in the Menu.
If you right-click the KeyMaestro icon on the
taskbar, a menu will pop up with the following options.
Click on this command, a customization dialogue box will pop up with following functions.
1. Select a HotKey
* Label
In the "Button Label" box, type the name of application that the button will launch, or any name that will help you remember the function of the button. This label will appear on screen each time you press the button.
* Functions
You can see a list of pre-defined functions and set one of it for the button.
* Launch Application or Website
Type in the path to an often-used application or click the Browse button to select any file in your computer. If you want to attach a web page to the button, just simply type in the website address in the dialogue box.
* Combination Key
In
many Windows application, there are many hot keys to execute some often used
commands. Some of the hot keys are combined with two keys pressed
simultaneously, and some are three. It is not easy to press and to remember
those hot keys. Now you can define those complicated hot keys you always forgot.
Any kind of combination is available. For example,
[Alt] + [F4] = close window,
[Ctrl] + [A] = select all.
* String
You may define the button as a string of texts which needs to be input often. The maximum characters are 500. Taking good advantages of this function can save much your text input time and makes your works more efficient.
2. Enable Display Label
This command is to show or hide the OSD (On Screen Display). When the OSD is enabled, each time you press any one of the multimedia buttons, its function name (button label) will show on the right-bottom corner on the screen. The default of this function is enabled.
3. Enable Taskbar Icon
This
command is to show or hide the taskbar driver icon. When the function is
enabled, you can see a driver icon
its function name (button label) will show on the right-bottom corner of the
screen. If you want to reload it again, you can select Start
=> Program => Configure to launch it. The
default of this function is enabled.
4. Enable Auto Play
This command is to show or hide the auto play function. When the function is enabled, the Microsoft Media Player will show on the screen after you press the “Play” key of the multimedia keys. For Winamp user, you can use the multimedia keys to control the Winamp function after you call out the Winamp and disable the Auto play function. The default of this function is enabled.
When there is no "Play" Key on the keyboard, please pre-define other key to have the "Play" function.
Select this command to exit from this driver program, but not to remove (uninstall). After you restart your system, the driver will be loaded again.
In case you have some troubles on installing other programs, we recommend you to exit this Input Device Driver firstly in order to have a cleaner system environment.
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