
At the moment I am using a USB Xtech keyboard out of China and it is very compact. Near the enter key is the standby button and if your hand slips during important input you are in for trouble. What I want to know are two things:
1. Does anyone know if there is a way to disable individual keys on a keyboard without having to buy an expensive program
2. Xtech website for possible drivers / downloads - note: this is not the same as the Xtech flash drives web site.
I have a micro keyboard and the software that came with it allows for micro management of the keyboard. The drivers are on the same cd and make it easy for me to do so. Xtech is notoriously less user friendly and often has had driver issues, at least with windows XP. If the software does not allow for management, I'm not sure that there is a way. I'm not even aware of a program that allows for this type of management that is not made by the keyboard maker.
I once bought an Xtech mouse that had downloadable drivers, but the site had such a weird name and now I cannot remember it. I am hoping to find the site again as it may have something for the keyboard. It seems like they keep an extremely low profile possibly in the hope that their hardware is never returned.
Since my last post I bought an X-tech Multimedia Keyboard which places these fancy buttons to the top of the Keyboard away from the alpha / numeric keys so you are not likely to slip. The keyboard handles well for a few months and then must be replaced because something malfunctions. In other words you get what you pay for... and I have gone through many of these. Here are some of the reasons:
1. Some keys stopped working
2. Space bar spring went
3. General malfunction where the keyboard would stop responding after awhile
4. Lettering on the keys faded quickly.