My old keyboard was a Razer Arctosa. Although it was just an overpriced (but quite crappy imho) dome keyboard with gamer styling there was one feature of this keyboard that I completely took for granted when i purchased a new Leopold FC500R mechanical keyboard this week: Multimedia keys!
Today i realised that the only way i could change my system volume while using headphones was by clicking on the volume in the taskbar notifications. Gahhhhhh! Coming from a Powermac (with volume controls on keyboard) to a macbook pro (with volume controls like every other laptop) to a PC with my old Razer keyboard I found myself in a situation I had not faced since my Pentium 4 was still working about 7 years ago. (and I didn't use headphones then so I could adjust sound on the speakers!). This is a huge pain in the arse when gaming or doing anything full screen as I have to alt-tab out of whatever to change the volume.
I thought "hey there must be a keyboard shortcut to adjust volume built into windows 7, there must be!" but i cant find anything D:
Through google i have found lots of tutorials on how to made shortcut files and then assign them to key bindings... i have found tutorials on how to muck around with code to change what certain buttons do on your keyboard (like make page up and down act as volume controls).
I could handle these methods but what i am really looking for is a simple program that allows me to assign keyboard shortcuts to things like play, pause, volume, skip track etc. I don't mind if it runs in the backround constantly (shouldn't be too resource hungry but I think i've got plenty of 'resources') Does anyone know of any such software? Any help would be appreciated greatly
(I am kicking myself because I was going to get a FC700R but couldn't get it in black.. now I think I would have preferred white or graphite and the lack of a numpad just for the addition of the multimedia functions)
Edited by beanscene - 7/21/12 at 6:52am
Today i realised that the only way i could change my system volume while using headphones was by clicking on the volume in the taskbar notifications. Gahhhhhh! Coming from a Powermac (with volume controls on keyboard) to a macbook pro (with volume controls like every other laptop) to a PC with my old Razer keyboard I found myself in a situation I had not faced since my Pentium 4 was still working about 7 years ago. (and I didn't use headphones then so I could adjust sound on the speakers!). This is a huge pain in the arse when gaming or doing anything full screen as I have to alt-tab out of whatever to change the volume.
I thought "hey there must be a keyboard shortcut to adjust volume built into windows 7, there must be!" but i cant find anything D:
Through google i have found lots of tutorials on how to made shortcut files and then assign them to key bindings... i have found tutorials on how to muck around with code to change what certain buttons do on your keyboard (like make page up and down act as volume controls).
I could handle these methods but what i am really looking for is a simple program that allows me to assign keyboard shortcuts to things like play, pause, volume, skip track etc. I don't mind if it runs in the backround constantly (shouldn't be too resource hungry but I think i've got plenty of 'resources') Does anyone know of any such software? Any help would be appreciated greatly
(I am kicking myself because I was going to get a FC700R but couldn't get it in black.. now I think I would have preferred white or graphite and the lack of a numpad just for the addition of the multimedia functions)
Edited by beanscene - 7/21/12 at 6:52am
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