6100 - Internet/Email buttons

Just a question simply out of curiosity.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I never ever press the email or internet browser buttons on my keyboard (the ones above Print Screen, Pause, Num Lock). Is there any way to map them to say, Calculator or something else like a little more useful to me?

Thanks,
Cam

Canuck in Deutschland

 

ubercam,

I never use them neither, but I remember installing XP from scratch (not the recovery disks, retail windows) and the buttons were properly recognized (i was interet explorer, not averatec's homepage tho). My guess is that they work directly with windows, not with 3rd party software provided by averatec. But that would be interesting to be able to map them somewhere else.

I've been able to use these buttons with winamp and some hotkey plugins, the email button is seen as "lauch email" and "i" is seen as "browser home"

Sorry if I can't help further.

Math

 

I think these buttons are cool. I use them to launch firefox for my browser and thunderbird for my e-mail client.
-andrew

 

Yeah, I think it uses what you have set as default browser and default email client in Windows XP, so for those I have to explain it to, if you go into Start and you have the XP style start menu, it's whatever's under Internet and Email, in my case Firefox and Outlook 2003 (damn Pocket PC's... but that's another story).

You say Winamp lets you use them as "Browser Home" and "Launch Email", so perhaps there is something that can be done... I'm not a programmer but, if there was a way to watch for the keys being pressed and intercept them before Windows then perhaps we're onto something.

But yeah, I have no experience with that so I'm not even gonna try... but yeah if anyone knows anything more please let me know.

Cam

Canuck in Deutschland

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by jedisolo