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    Aspire 5920 "Media" Keys

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Big Dan, Jul 19, 2008.

  1. Big Dan

    Big Dan Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi Folks,

    I was wondering if there is anyway to map the media keys on the right hand side of the keyboard to programs other than Windows Media Player? I tried using Acer's built in launch manager but no luck. I'm not a big fan of WMP and would rather use Winamp, it's rather short sided that Acer wouldn't include a way to map them.

    Here are the keys I'm talking about:

    img_47811_acer_aspire_5920_7_450x360.jpg
     
    Big Dan, Jul 19, 2008
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  2. SAiLO

    SAiLO Notebook Evangelist

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    Go to Control Panel -> Mouse -> Device Settings .
    Choose Synaptics LuxPad, go to settings and change whatever you like.
    You can even make the red button glow. :D
     
    SAiLO, Jul 19, 2008
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  3. bigozone

    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    that's some good info...

    and a cool AVY too SALiO
     
    bigozone, Jul 19, 2008
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  4. vorob

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    vorob, Jul 19, 2008
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    hoggie old boy

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    hoggie old boy

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    Welcome to the forum :D

    All The Best,
    Phil :D
     
    hoggie, Jul 19, 2008
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  7. vorob

    vorob Notebook Deity

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    Can't find this guide, can you show me?
     
    vorob, Jul 20, 2008
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  8. Big Dan

    Big Dan Notebook Enthusiast

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    Big Dan, Jul 20, 2008
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    zippy77777 Notebook Geek

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    Ive downloaded and im still not getting the luxpad ???
     
    zippy77777, Jul 22, 2008
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    zippy77777 Notebook Geek

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    Hope someone can help soon, this is driving me insane. Ive downloaded a 25mb file and rebooted but im not getting the luxpad just an updated mouse driver, where is the luxpad, please help......... Argghhhhh!!!
     
    zippy77777, Jul 22, 2008
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    hoggie old boy

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    Yeah managed to get it sorted. I wasnt deleting the old drivers off first. Once i did and reloaded it worked fine, thank you for your help. Just goes to show that you must delete the old drivers otherwise its a no go!!!
     
    zippy77777, Jul 24, 2008
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  13. sam88885

    sam88885 Newbie

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    as per i have an acer aspire 5920 laptop, which is having the the video card on intel mobility card and iwant to replace it to nvidia gt 8600 vga card how can i do it? help
     
    sam88885, Aug 9, 2008
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