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3790-Disable Front Quick Access?

post #1 of 21
9/18/04 at 5:28pm
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Hi Guys & Gals

Anyone know if the quick access butons can be disabled on the front of the 3790? The ones for email and Internet?

Thanks

Kilgor
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post #2 of 21
9/18/04 at 8:56pm
The config data is in the registry. Find them at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Chicony\CNK001

I haven't been able to figure out how to disable anything yet... I've only been able to change the OSD text... any changes will require restart of mhotkey.exe
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post #3 of 21
9/18/04 at 10:24pm
I've been trying for about an hour to figure this out also with no luck. May have to call Sager support on this one.
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post #4 of 21
9/18/04 at 10:29pm
If you're bored, you could try downloading Registry Monitor from SysInternal, kill mhotkey.exe, then restart it, and see what registry keys and values it tries to read. Maybe that'll help you in figuring out what it does.
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post #5 of 21
9/21/04 at 11:07pm
I sent an email to Sager support and this is the response:

"Sorry John, I do not have any way to disable those buttons."

That sucks.
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post #6 of 21
9/21/04 at 11:19pm
duct tape
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post #7 of 21
9/22/04 at 12:20am
wonder if you could mod them to turn on a led in the speakers or something like that ... you can pull the 5 volts from the usb ports
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post #8 of 21
9/22/04 at 1:07am
oooh, that would be kinda cool. or a backlit keyboard, someone on this forum posted something on how to do that. (well, not using those buttons to do it, but the keyboard in general)
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post #9 of 21
9/22/04 at 1:11am
There is always a way...


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Originally Posted by jw95275
The config data is in the registry. Find them at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Chicony\CNK001

I haven't been able to figure out how to disable anything yet... I've only been able to change the OSD text... any changes will require restart of mhotkey.exe
Folders 3 & 4 hold the WWW and email values. I tried modifying (set the 1 to a 0), then deleting these with no luck. I have even stopped mhotkey.
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post #10 of 21
9/22/04 at 2:11am
If the keys are like the hotkeys on non-laptop keyboards, you may be able to disable them by modifying the key mappings in Windows.

You have to know the scan codes though - I think there are utilities to figure that out.
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post #11 of 21
9/24/04 at 4:01pm
This may give someone a clue. I just received my replacement 3790, installed Windows only (nothing from the driver cd), and those damn buttons still work.
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post #12 of 21
9/24/04 at 4:35pm
These two pages might help then, in this case:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device.../Scancode.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...kscan-map.mspx

What you might want to try is looking up the PS/2 Set 1 Make for Mail and WWW Home, and then setting them to null.

So something like the following:

00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 03, 00, 00, 00, 6C, E0, 00, 00, 32, E0, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00

(Read the above links to understand what the numbers mean.)
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post #13 of 21
9/24/04 at 4:49pm
Thanks, I'll check it out.
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post #14 of 21
9/24/04 at 5:33pm
Might as well put the entire registry merge file in.

Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,6C,E0,00,00,32,E0,00,00,00,00,00,00

Copy and paste that code into Notepad, save it as something, say DisableQuickAccessKeys.reg, and then double click it, and merge it in.

Note that you'll need to reboot before it works. If it doesn't work, go in to that key and delete the Scancode Map value.
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post #15 of 21
9/25/04 at 12:28am
Didn't work.

It says it merged but Scancode Map doesn't show up under Keyboard Layout. And the buttons still work.
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post #16 of 21
9/25/04 at 1:13am
Hmmmm - it merged on mine. But since I don't have those buttons, I can't test it.

There's "Keyboard Layout" and "Keyboard Layouts" in my registry - did you look at the right one?

Are you running Windows XP?
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post #17 of 21
9/25/04 at 1:36am
Yes, layout not outs. Odd though, Scancode Map showed up under ControlSet03 but with no values. I did it exactly as you had it so I don't know what the deal is. Yes, XP sp2.
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post #18 of 21
9/25/04 at 1:38am
Hmmmmm.

That's absolutely weird - I wonder if SP2 is blocking the registry edits.

Can you manually add the value to the registry?
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post #19 of 21
9/25/04 at 1:39am
Yes, but I am no reg wiz. If you give me a step-by-step I'll try it. Starting from add new key (or whatever).
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post #20 of 21
9/25/04 at 1:46am
Want to IM this instead? Probably a lot easier. PM me with info if you want to.
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