Congratulations on your purchasing this USB multimedia keyboard. This keyboard puts you in the driver's seat with the special keys for multimedia and the Internet. Access the WWW and E-mail at the touch of a key, control speaker volume and CD functions. Plus, save valuable mouse-clicks with five dedicated Shortcut buttons to your most commonly used applications. In addition, one Power button is provided by this keyboard to energy-efficiently control the system's power. You'll discover your performance will be enhanced to a high level with this keyboard.
To use these multimedia keys, you have to install "KeyMaestro Input Device Driver" first.
Microsoft® Windows® 98, Windows® ME, Windows® 2000 or Windows® XP operating system
CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive
Standard sound card
The system supporting ACPI or APM II (for Power button)
ATX mother board and ATX power supply (for Power button)
In order for the USB multimedia keyboard to function properly, first install the USB drivers and then install the KeyMaestro Input Device Driver.
Note: If all of the buttons on the keyboard work except the multimedia buttons, the keyboard is recognized by the system and you only need to install the KeyMaestro Input Device Driver.
The USB device driver is included in Windows system.
When the first time you plug in the USB keyboard, the system will automatically detect a new hardware connected and bring up the Add New Hardware Wizard. Follow the Wizard's USB driver installation steps. Once this step is completed the basic functions of the keyboard will work under the operating system.
Before installing the KeyMaestro Input Device Driver, you have to make sure that the USB device driver has been installed and the USB keyboard is recognized by Windows operating system. You may toggle the NumLock or CapsLock key to see if the LED is lit correspondently, and thus to know the keyboard works well.
Then you may refer to the following steps to install the keyboard driver.
Insert the disk labeled "KeyMaestro Input Device Driver"' into your disk drive.
Open File Explorer to find "Setup.exe" from the disk.
Double-click the "Setup.exe".
Then follow the screen instruction to install the driver. The default install path is set to c:\KMaestro. You have the option to change the install path during setup.
Setup will indicate when it has successfully completed. The driver is loaded when you see the driver icon
in the system tray (lower right corner of the screen). The operating system does not need to restart.
Please note that you have to uninstall the driver first if you want to re-install the driver. This uninstallation only can remove the KeyMaestro Input Device Driver from your system, not removing USB device driver and other hardware drivers.
Power
button: This button is to help you to control the system's power. Three function events
(Sleep, Power off, Wake up) are included in this special unique button. Those function
events are specified and performed by Windows 98 and Windows 2000
operating systems. So no
vendor-specified driver is needed to use them.
"Sleep" event | puts your system to sleep (power-saving) mode. When the Power button is pressed and hold within 4 seconds, this event will be executed. |
"Power off" event | closes the operating system and powers down the system. When the Power button is pressed and hold over 4 seconds, this event will be executed. |
"Wake up" event | wakes up your system. When the system is in sleep mode and the Power button is pressed, this event will be executed. |
Except the Power button, there are a row of multimedia keys on the top of keyboard. The functions are described as below.
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WWW | launches to your Internet Browser application which should be pre-installed. If you have installed two browsers in your system, the system default one will be opened. Mostly the system default is the later installed one. |
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opens the default program you use for mail. If more than one email programs are installed, you may select Tools -> Internet Options -> Programs -> Email to change the default setting from Internet Explorer. | |
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Shortcut 1, Shortcut 2, Shortcut 3, Shortcut 4, Shortcut 5 |
provides you five Shortcut buttons to create easy accesses to the documents and programs you use most often. The default settings for these five buttons are all the same to launch Windows accessory program 'Notepad'. If you want to change the settings for each Shortcut button, you have to click the KeyMaestro icon on the taskbar and select Configuration command. For more details, please refer to the section Configuration. |
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Volume Control | controls the volume of your audio output to the speakers. |
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Mute | mutes the sound output. Repress this button to resume. |
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Previous / Fast Backward | skips backward to the previous file/track or play
backward fast when pressing once quickly. But, if you are using "Vendor
Player", you
have to press and hold the button and then the file/track will play backward fast.
(The "Vendor Player" is only for Windows 98 users). |
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Play/Pause | presses this button to play Audio CD or Video CD, or to pause it. When it is paused, you may press the button again to resume it from the current position. |
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Stop | stops the playing. |
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Next / Fast Forward | skips forward to the next file/track or play forward
fast when pressing once quickly. But, if you are using 'Vendor Player', you have to
press and hold the button and then the file/track will play forward fast
(The "Vendor Player" is only for Windows 98 users). |
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Eject | ejects/closes the CD tray. |
If you click the KeyMaestro icon
on the taskbar, a menu will pop up with the following commands.
The driver-provided CD Player and this command are only available under Windows 98.
This command is to show or hide the CD player display, and appears in the menu only when KeyMaestro is playing media files. The location of the display is available for you to move by using mouse. The red square an "-" inside on the upper-right corner in the display can close this display window directly, instead of clicking this command.
This command is to keep the playing continuously in a loop. A word "REPEAT" will be shown on the CD player display if this command is checked.
Same as the first command "Show/Hide Vendor Player Display", this command is only available under Windows 98.
Vendor Player Enabled (only for Windows 98)
After installing the KeyMaestro driver, the KeyMaestro driver offers "Vendor Player" for the users of Windows 98. The default of this player in driver is "Vendor Player Enabled". You can press the "Volume up", "Volume down", "Mute", "Previous/Fast Backward", "Stop", "Next/ Fast Forward", "Eject" and "Play/Pause" buttons to control these functions on "Vendor Player" directly. And, the OSD of these buttons will display on the screen.
However, if you want to use the Microsoft Windows built-in player instead of "Vendor player", please click the KeyMaestro driver icon
on the right-bottom taskbar and select "Vendor Player Enabled" to disable it first. And, you can select the Microsoft CD Player in the "Start Menu".
When you are using the Microsoft CD Player, there are only "volume up", "volume down" and "mute" functions can be controlled by "volume up", "volume down" and "mute" buttons. The OSD of these three buttons will display on the screen.
This command is to show or hide the OSD (On Screen Display). When the OSD is enabled, each time you press any one of the multimedia buttons, its function name (button label) will show on the left-bottom corner on the screen.
There are part of the multimedia keys are performed by Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows XP directly. At this time, the OSD will not be displayed on the screen.
This command is to set the color of the OSD. You can select a favorite color to distinguish from the background.
This command is to change the settings for the reprogrammable keys.
In the Configuration window, you can see the reprogrammable buttons lining there. The names in the first column are the fixed button names. The names in the second column are the Button Label showing the current settings. Click on the button you wish to reconfigure. The Button Customization dialog box will appear.
- Select a type for this button.
- As a string
You may define for a Shortcut a string of texts which needs to be input often. The maximum characters are 3000. Taking good advantages of this function can save much your text input time and makes your works more efficient.
As a combination key
In many Windows application, there are many hot keys to execute some often used commands. Some of the hot keys are combined with two keys pressed simultaneously, and some are three. It is not easy to press and to remember those hot keys. Now you can define those complicated hot keys you always forgot for Shortcut buttons. Any kind of combination is available. For example,
[Alt] + [F4] = close window,
[Ctrl] + [A] = select all.Type in a web site address
If you want to attach a web page to the button, select 'Type in a web site address' and type in the URL of the page in the 'Address' field or click the Favorite button to select the web page from your favorites.
Select a file on your computer
Type in the path to an often used application or click the Browse button to select any file on your computer.
Pre-defined Functions
Click Select button to see the list of pre-defined functions.
In the Button Label box, type the name of application that the button will launch, or any name that will help you remember the function of the button. This label will appear on screen each time you press the button.
Click OK.
Select this command to bring up this Help file you are viewing now.
Select this command to see the information of this KeyMaestro driver, including the version number and web site which you can get more driver information.
Select this command to exit from this driver program, but not to remove (uninstall). After you restart your system, the driver will be loaded again.
If you really want to remove (uninstall) the driver, please refer to the Uninstallation section above.
In case you have some troubles on installing other programs, we recommend you to exit this multimedia driver firstly in order to have a cleaner system environment.
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