How do I disable/modify XP's Multimedia keyboard Support? [Archive]

Tommyboy22481

October 13th, 2002, 12:55 PM

HI, I just started using Girder, and I am using it to reprogram the multimedia buttons on my KB-9900 PS/2 keyboard because I can make them a lot more useful with girder than with the OEM Program. Anyways, by default, XP has already implimented some of the buttons on my keyboard so that the volume and launch browser buttons work with no third party software at all. This is all fine and dandy if I don't want to bother with loading an extra program at startup, but when I use girder this limits the buttons I can use (I can still use the buttons but they do two things at once, not good).

Is there any way to disable these pre-defined button actions in XP, or a way to change what they do? Or maybe make windows ignore the pre-defined actions and use girder commands ?

I also have a compaq Presario FX700 Multimedia monitor with several buttons and a volume control on the front , But comaq has decided to only write software to support windwos 9x. The monitor has a USB hub built into it and i'm fairly sure this is how the events are passed to the system. I would like to use girder to enable these buttons. Is there a plug-in for USB events? This would be doubly useful because I recently bought a ATI all in wonder radeon 7500 video card and it has a RF remote with a USB reciever so if I could get girder to recognize the RF reciever events then I could reprogram the remote also.

Girder rocks, and I really, really wish my laptop had a IR receiver built into it so I could control it with one of those tiny car stereo remotes. oh well :P any help on any of theses topics would be appreciated