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Status: Closed Points: 50 Time: 06:26 - Jan 21, 2007
WSC
I have a three year old Dell XPS, 2.8Ghz PC that came with a dell multimedia keyboard. When I first got my PC, I was able to reprogram a number of the function keys (aka hot keys) to other things to customize it for my needs. For example, the calculator key now starts "Quicken." I now realize that I can no longer remember how I did that. There does not seem to be any programs on my PC for performing this customization. I want to say there used to be program in the Control Panel for that, but not now. Dell help desk was no help. I'm not a newbie. How do I change these function key settings? Thanks. Here's my keyboard: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/ac...
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xarcus
Date:: Jan 25, 2007
Time:: 05:01
From Dell knowledge base: How do I configure the DellTouch™ Hot Key defaults? http://support.dell.com/support/topics/g...
Time:: 05:06
Previous link broken probably because of line too length Let us put it in a separate line: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/g...
Time:: 05:07
Broken again. Lets write it without the protocol. support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?docid=0BFBDEAC771D41F188BD094A295CB0F7&c=us&l=en&s=gen
Time:: 05:11
Plz. recompose previous answer splitted address.
Time:: 15:19
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/ac... is mine. Could you get to that? The referenced software is not on my system. The article doesn't mention where to go get it; it's also not on any of my Dell disks.
Date:: Jan 27, 2007
Time:: 05:39
I did some more searching, and found this link. Is this the proper utility for configuring my Dell multimedia keyboard? http://support.us.dell.com/support/downl...
Time:: 15:20
The one you found is for a "Dell Enhanced Performance USB Keyboard" I have found another one more suited to your keyboard title "Dell Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard" support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&;releaseid=R44838&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=52860 The instructions are here: support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?docid=5C9444DA13B0427CB5CE5E5FD5343AE8&c=us&l=en&s=gen
Time:: 15:27
There is a garbage semicolon at the beginning of the second line of the first link the semicolon before releaseid= Anyway I got there, from your link, looking for file R44838.exe at the Downloads search "Search by keyword or filename" on the right-side column
Date:: Jan 28, 2007
Time:: 05:38
I finally found the proper file and it's already installed on my machine. But, when I click on the executable (mmkey.exe), it brings up the control panel for my Create Sound card instead of the Dell TouchKeys panel. I reinstalled it in a different folder with the same result. For some reason, it's grabbing my sound card controller instead of the keyboard one. I verified this with my Dell Resource CD as well; I have the right file....
ambonsall
Date:: Apr 17, 2007
Time:: 09:25
Use RegEdit to open the registry and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey The subkeys here (on my Dell Enh Wireless KB) correspond to a subset of the 'programmable' keys. They are 15 - Mail, 16 - Musical notes/Ausio key which is by default runs mmkey.exe, but I just substituted wmplayer in the ShellExecute subkey to run MS media player, 17 - My computer, 18 Calc.exe, 7 - web browser. Hope this helps.
Date:: Apr 22, 2007
Time:: 06:12
Interesting; my keys correspond pretty much the same as yours, but "mmkey.exe" brings up my Audigy sound card mixer controls and not the keyboard control as I think it's supposed to and used to. I've reinstalled the mmkey a couple of times from Dell's site, but nothing seems to fix it. Ideas?
Time:: 06:15
How do I reassociate this mmkey to my keyboard controls? That seems to be the problem...
admin
Date:: Jun 16, 2007
Time:: 15:53
WSC, please close this question and distribute the points. If you didn't get a solution to your problem or you found it yourself, please leave a comment here to let the experts know. Thanks, Quomon Admin
Date:: Jun 25, 2007
Time:: 05:51
The question has been closed. Quomon Admin
Date:: Jun 27, 2007
Time:: 10:49
None of these solutions worked.
Time:: 10:51
The major problem is how to reassociate this mmkey to my keyboard controls? None of the other ideas worked. Any ideas? WSC
Date:: Jul 08, 2007
Time:: 05:58
This question was not answered. My problem is unresolved. Why did you award points?
Date:: Aug 31, 2007
Time:: 03:08
I'm sorry, WSC, it looked like an abandoned question. When people don't respond to the admin message within reasonable time, we close them in order to reward the experts that tried to help you out for their effort, even though it didn't solve your question.
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