Soldato
- Joined
- 10 May 2004
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- Sunny Stafford
Colleague was selling theirs on our work's noticeboard, which I snapped up. It's a wireless desktop, and wow, how small is that pick-up?! It's barely little more than the metal from the USB contacts 
Just don't lose it! I remember back in 1999, my first wireless mouse had an oval pick-up almost the size of the mouse itself at the end of a USB cable.
Anyway, question: the guy didn't have the driver CD which is normally essential for the OS to pick up the various FN and macro buttons. Lo and behold, Windows (7 Home 64-bit) picked up the special functions fine. There is a button with a picture of a calculator on it, which launches calc.exe. There are back and forwards arrow buttons that takes Windows Explorer and the web browser back/forwards, even works with my portable app. FN+F3 (search symbol) opens up Windows search. FN+F11 (with 1/0 symbol) shuts down the PC. This amazes me, so how does Windows handle the key assignments (outside of normal ASCII of course) without needing the device-specific software?
Just don't lose it! I remember back in 1999, my first wireless mouse had an oval pick-up almost the size of the mouse itself at the end of a USB cable.Anyway, question: the guy didn't have the driver CD which is normally essential for the OS to pick up the various FN and macro buttons. Lo and behold, Windows (7 Home 64-bit) picked up the special functions fine. There is a button with a picture of a calculator on it, which launches calc.exe. There are back and forwards arrow buttons that takes Windows Explorer and the web browser back/forwards, even works with my portable app. FN+F3 (search symbol) opens up Windows search. FN+F11 (with 1/0 symbol) shuts down the PC. This amazes me, so how does Windows handle the key assignments (outside of normal ASCII of course) without needing the device-specific software?
