System Requirements

Installation

Uninstallation

Battery & LED Indication

Using ACPI Power Management Key /Sleep

Internet Key Functions

Commands in the Menu


KeyMaestro Input Device Driver

Congratulations on your purchasing this USB RF Internet keyboard. With seven buttons featured for Internet, this keyboard is the best helper when you surf on the web by using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (or later version). 

Note:  This driver only executes the Battery Low and the LED functions when you are running under Windows 2000, Windows ME or Windows XP.  And, all the multimedia buttons are executed by Windows system instead of the KeyMaestro driver.

System Requirements

Installation

In order for the USB RF Internet keyboard to function properly, first install the build-in Windows USB device drivers, and then 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 then bring up the "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 the NumLock or CapsLock key to see if the LED is lit correspondently, and thus to know the keyboard works well.

You may refer to the following steps to install the "KeyMaestro Input Device Driver".  

After installing the USB device driver and make sure that the keyboard is recognized by the operating system.

  1. Insert the disk labeled "KeyMaestro Input Device Driver" into your disk drive.

  2. Open File Explorer to find "Setup.exe" from the disk.

  3. Double-click the "Setup.exe".

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

  5. 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 (lower right corner of the screen). 

Uninstallation

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. 

  1. Click the KeyMaestro driver icon icon.GIF (262 bytes) 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"icon2.gif (1079 bytes).
  6. Click "Yes" to confirm you want to uninstall.

Note:  When the driver installed, the KeyMaestro driver icon icon1.gif (885 bytes) will show on the right-bottom taskbar.
The driver icon is shown as
icon.GIF (262 bytes) icon in the Start Menu, when you are going to re-install or exit the KeyMaestro driver.

Battery Low & LED Indication

When keyboard batteries are low, the battery low icon will show on the right-bottom corner on the Windows taskbar. 

When mouse batteries are low, the battery low icon  will show on the right-bottom corner on the Windows taskbar.

The icons will disappear when you change the batteries.

Using ACPI Power Management Key / Sleep

Your keyboard has the power management key which is also can be called ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) key.

It is processed and performed by Windows not KeyMaestro driver.  As this ACPI key is performed not completely under Windows 98; the KeyMaestro driver provides an option to enable the ACPI key.  When the option is enabled, the driver will take the Windows' place to process this key.

Note:  There are other situations for the users of Windows 98, please refer to the section ACPI Key Enabled  for more detailed information.

Sleep puts your system to sleep (power-saving) mode. Any key will wake up your system and return to the previous working status.

Internet Key Functions

These keys are re-programmable. 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. To reconfigure these keys, click the KeyMaestro icon on the taskbar to select Configuration command.

back.gif (1147 bytes) Back returns to the last page you viewed.
forward.gif (1139 bytes) Forward views the next page you viewed before.
wstop.gif (990 bytes) Stop If a page you are trying to view is taking too long to open, click this button.
webhome.gif (1365 bytes) WWW Home starts your Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and bring up the home page you set.
wsearch.gif (1206 bytes) Search gains access to a number of search providers.
favorite.gif (1329 bytes) Favorites selects a web page from your list of favorites.
email.gif (1548 bytes) E-Mail opens the default program you use for mail. If more than one email programs are installed, you may select Tools -> Internet Options -> Programs -> E-mail to change the default setting from Internet Explorer.

Commands in the Menu

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

Note:  There are only "OSD Enable", "OSD Color' ,"Configuration", "Help", "About" and "Exit" functions will affect when you are running under Windows 2000, Windows ME or Windows XP.

This command is to change the settings for those Internet keys.

In the Configuration window, you can see the 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.

  1. Select a type for this button.

You may define the button as 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.

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.

Type in the path to a often used application or click the Browse button to select any file on your computer.

You can click "Select" button to see the list of pre-defined functions and set one of it for this button, or you can click the "Default" button to set back to be the original pre-defined function.

  1. 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.

  2. 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 update the driver.

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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