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    Repurposed OKR Button?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by ChrisPls, Oct 7, 2012.

  1. ChrisPls

    ChrisPls Newbie

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    Has anyone repurposed their OKR button to do something else? Anything from a "Quote of the Hour" to a fully functional backup stored online. It seems really easy to break it, and I'm not a fan of nonfunctional buttons.

    I'm considering a y580, but I can't imagine the procedure is very different across computers.
     
    ChrisPls, Oct 7, 2012
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  2. link626

    link626 Asus GL502VM, Lenovo Y580, Asus K53TA

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    it's possible.

    the okr button boots the computer into windows PE, and runs the OKR program in the hidden partition.

    I haven't looked at it carefully, but it either calls a script to run the okr program, or lenovo programmed it somehow.

    if you replace the okr.exe with another program file, I imagine it would run like any other program in winPE.
     
    link626, Oct 7, 2012
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  3. LTBonham

    LTBonham Notebook Evangelist

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    Not sure if it applies to your situation, but KeyTweak spoke of here - How do I ... remap my keyboard with KeyTweak? | TechRepublic - remapped one of my quick launch keys on my HP DV6.

    I can now open winodws explorer (or whatever else) with a key that would never work right after a fresh install of windows.
     
    LTBonham, Oct 8, 2012
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