Favorites on Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000

[Cabana]

Anyone know how to set these buttons to do "next/prev track" or something like that? The help says I can set them to special commands, but it only gives me the option for a URL/file. I have Intellitype 5.3.

 

[llamaSpire]

I have the exact same question with Intellitype 5.5. Specifically, I'm looking for better integration with Winamp and its global hotkeys--there doesn't seem to be an easy way to assign keystroke combos to the special buttons.

 

[Cabana]

bump, anyone?

 

[Mysteriouskk]

Would you recommend that 4000 keyboard for gaming?

 

[Cabana]

Well it's just as good as any other keyboard I guess. There is the zoom slider which might be customizable in games along with the back/fwd buttons under the space bar. Other than that it's the same. Not having a "next track" button could be annoying if you listen to mp3s while playing.

 

[IQJUMPuw]

Originally posted by: Mysteriouskk
Would you recommend that 4000 keyboard for gaming?

I ended up returning mine. This keyboard isn't for gaming. It was the most comfortable keyboard I've ever used though. But trust me, ergonomic keyboards really aren't for gaming.

 

[Cabana]

I've only owned ergonomic keyboards for the last 8 years and I game...I can't use a computer without one.

 

[Tu13erhead]

I got my Back and Forward keys to function as the Previous and Next Track, but it doesn't work in Winamp for some reason. Actually, the odd thing is it worked a few times, and never since...

 

[Cabana]

I went and tried it in Winamp and under global hotkeys you can set the back/fwd keys to change tracks. It seems to work from any other program too except web browsers that use alt+left or alt+right. Unfortunately winamp won't let me set the favorites button though, guess I'll have to wait for someone to release a hack that gets us use of them.

 

[Cabana]

I just found a fix through google at http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000400.html

you can use a "Command" on the favourites keys by entering into the registry (BE WARNED - don't fiddle with the registry unless you know what you are doing and have backed it up first). I have found that the favourites keys have entries 78-82... therefore, to set the Next Track / Prev. Track for keys 4 and 5 respectively you need to add the following into the registry...
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\IntelliType Pro\EventMapping\81]
"Command"=dword:000002c0

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\IntelliType Pro\EventMapping\82]
"Command"=dword:000002bf

I found the command values by changing what the Web/Home key did and inspected the change in the registry - so it should be pretty obvious how to assign the commands you want against your favourites.