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    Asus W3J Hotkey Issue

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by LatinoHeat, Aug 8, 2007.

  1. LatinoHeat

    LatinoHeat Notebook Consultant

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    Hi everyone,

    About a while back, I upgraded to vista, everything was fine. Everything worked.

    But recently the hotkeys would not work. I phoned asus, and they told me to uninstall completely splendid, audio driver, atk osd, atk media, and atk hotkey.

    I did.

    I afterwards installed the driver in the website ATK_Vista32_070313_2. This is suppose to be the utility that permits the w3j to run the hotkeys.

    Install was successfull as declared by the program, and restarted the notebook.

    afterwards, i noticed that the keys that do not work anymore is the audio fn keys under f10-12, the splendid key on the right of the w3j the power setting changer on the right,.

    Does anyone have a resolution for this.

    Should I uninstall the ATK 1000utilty again, if so how this time. As it is not listed in the program uninstall list of vista nor your uninstaller. I see the folder under windows.

    Can anyone please help me get the audio fn keys and the splendid keys workings, as I find it annoying that they don't do what they are meant to do. :(
     
  2. LatinoHeat

    LatinoHeat Notebook Consultant

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    I believe I fixed it, the problem was that there was 2 Hcontrol.exe files placed in my notebook. One in the windows directory and one in program files. I needed to uninstall atkhotkey and delete the hcontrol.exe from windows folder and reinstall.

    so far all good.

    just providing an update on my situation. :)
     
  3. robohgedhang

    robohgedhang Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi Latino, do you use ZoneAlarm Security Suite (vista edition) by any chance? I found that ZASS causes problem related to the Splendid features.
     
  4. LatinoHeat

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    Hey robo,

    I use Kaspersky,but all issues were solved simply by deleting one of the exe files.
     
  5. robohgedhang

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    Good for you, then... btw what happens to Eddie's picture?