System Requirement

Installation

Uninstallation

Using Three Power Management Buttons

Using Multimedia Buttons

Commands in the Menu

KeyMaestro Input Device Driver

Congratulations on your purchasing this multimedia keyboard. With three power management buttons, this keyboard is energy-efficient to control the system's power. The better is, this keyboard puts you in the driver's seat with the special keys for multimedia and the Internet. Access the WWW, Search, or My Favorite at the touch of a key, control speaker volume and CD functions. Plus, save valuable mouse-clicks with the dedicated Shortcut key to your most commonly used application. You'll discover your performance will be enhanced to a high level with this keyboard for multimedia and the Web.

To use these multimedia buttons, you have to install KeyMaestro input device driver first.

System Requirement

• Microsoft® Windows® NT4.0, Windows® 95 , Windows® 98  or operating system (Windows® ME, Windows® 2000 or Windows NT® XP is option)

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later version

• CD-ROM drive (for CD and Video operation)

• Standard sound card (for CD and Video operation)

• The system supporting ACPI or APM II (for power management buttons)

• ATX mother board and ATX power supply (for power management buttons)

Note:  When you are running under Windows® ME, Windows® 2000 or Windows NT® XP, all the hot keys are executed by Windows not KeyMaestro driver; you don't have to install the KeyMaestro keyboard driver.  But, if you want to re-define the hot keys, please install the KeyMaestro driver to enable the function.

Installation

After finishing the hardware installation as described in this manual and starting up your PC, you should be able to immediately take advantage of the wireless function of the wireless keyboard.   

• USB 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 then bring up "Add New Hardware Wizard" dialogue box. Please follow the Wizard's USB driver installation steps. Once this installation step is completed the basic functions of the keyboard will work under the operating system. You may toggle NumLock or CapsLock key to see if LED is lit correspondently, and thus to know the keyboard works well.

• KeyMaestro Input Device Driver

1. Insert the CD labeled 'KeyMaestro Input Device Driver' into your CD-ROM.

2. Run the "SetupKey.exe".

3. Then follow the screen instruction to install the driver. The default-installed path is set to c:\Program Files\KMaestro. You have the option to change the install path during setup.

4. When all setup procedures are finished, the operating system does not need to restart. The driver is loaded when you see the driver icon show on the taskbar.

 

Uninstallation

Please note that you have to uninstall the driver first if you want to re-install the driver.

1. Click the KeyMaestro driver icon and select 'Exit' command to exit the driver program.

2. Click 'Start' (on the left-bottom taskbar).

3. Move cursor to 'Programs' in 'Start' menu.

4. Move cursor again to 'KeyMaestro'.

5. Select 'Uninstall KeyMaestro' .

6. Click 'Yes' to confirm you want to uninstall.

Using Three Power Management Buttons

Your keyboard has the power management keys which are Power off, Sleep, and Wake up three keys. They are also can be called ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) keys.

Using Multimedia Buttons

There are a row of multimedia keys on the top of keyboard. The functions are described as below.

Note: These keys are reprogrammable (except Volume up, Volume down and mute). They can be configured as a string, a combination key, a web site, an existing file, or a function the driver pre-defines for you. 

	WWW Home	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.
	Search WWW	launches to your Internet Browser application and go to the Search Engine web site.
	Favorites Folder	opens My Favorite folder for you to select your favorite web site.
	Back	returns to the last page you viewed.
	Forward	views the next page you viewed before.
	Mail	To open 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.
	Volume Up	Adjust the volume up.
	Volume Down	Adjust the volume down.
	Stop	stops the playing.
	Mute	mutes the sound output. Repress this button to resume.
	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.
	Previous	skips backward to the previous file/track.
	Next	skips forward to the next file/track.

Commands in the Menu

If you right-click on the KeyMaestro icon on the taskbar, a menu will pop up with the following commands.

• Configure

Click on this command, a customization dialogue box will pop up with following functions. 

1.  Select a HotKey

This function contains the default function of a key. You can click on the "Display Label" to re-define the key functions. When you click it, a Configure Button box will appear.

*  Label

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.

*  Functions

You can see a list of pre-defined functions and set one of it for the button.

*  Launch Application or Website

Type in the path to an often-used application or click the Browse button to select any file in your computer. If you want to attach a web page to the button, just simply type in the website address in the dialogue box.

* 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. Any kind of combination is available. For example,
[Alt] + [F4] = close window,
[Ctrl] + [A] = select all.

* String

You may define the button as a string of texts which needs to be input often. The maximum characters are 500. Taking good advantages of this function can save much your text input time and makes your works more efficient.

2. Enable Display Label

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 right-bottom corner on the screen. The default of this function is enabled.

3. Enable Taskbar Icon

This command is to show or hide the taskbar driver icon. When the function is enabled, you can see a driver icon its function name (button label) will show on the right-bottom corner of the screen. If you want to reload it again, you can select Start => Program => Configure to launch it. The default of this function is enabled.

4. Enable Auto Play

This command is to show or hide the auto play function. When the function is enabled, the Microsoft Media Player will show on the screen after you press the “Play” key of the multimedia keys. For Winamp user, you can use the multimedia keys to control the Winamp function after you call out the Winamp and disable the Auto play function. The default of this function is enabled.

• Exit

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.

In case you have some troubles on installing other programs, we recommend you to exit this Input Device Driver firstly in order to have a cleaner system environment.

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