Comments on blogfeld: How to Use a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro in Win...

HI, Thank you. I'm French. I don't speak a...

2012-01-29T11:06:53.937-05:00

HI,
Thank you. I'm French. I don't speak and write easealy in english, but I want said to you that your method is genius.

Thanks! This worked great. This is still my favori...

2011-12-28T22:17:05.631-05:00

Thanks! This worked great. This is still my favorite keyboard. The new Microsoft Natural Ergonomic keyboards are worthless, keys are harder to press and spacebar sticks.

Microsoft IntelliType or IntelliType Pro can cause...

2011-12-22T14:33:33.235-05:00

Microsoft IntelliType or IntelliType Pro can cause interference with the function keys on at least Samsung computers with Easy Display Manager installed - a Samsung utility. See

http://support-us.samsung.com/cyber/popup/iframe/pop_troubleshooting_fr.jsp?idx=121883&modelname=NP-NC10&modelcode

and

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/external-keyboard-on-samsung-notebook-works-fine/847a3be8-2118-4c7a-af3b-2262b1bf9343?page=1&tm=1324582045750#footer

Once I'd stopped IntelliType in Task Manager, the function keys started worked again, and most of the MS keyboard special keys still worked, but not volume up/down. Now for the task of figuring out what to do with IntelliType and if it needs to be running.

This was too good to be true. Now the Natural Keyb...

2011-12-20T22:47:11.793-05:00

This was too good to be true. Now the Natural Keyboard Pro works, but not all the keys on the Samsung notebook into which I plugged the Natural keyboard, notably not the brightness up and down keys. Any idea how to make both of them work?

Great stuff. It worked as described in every detai...

2011-12-20T20:40:22.652-05:00

Great stuff. It worked as described in every detail for W7 64-bit. Many thanks for having taken the effort. It's really lousy of MS to withdraw support for a perfectly good keyboad. Such behaviour only makes one want to NOT upgrade to new Windows versions and NOT buy MS hardware. Now to the next problem of figuring out what to do with hundreds of MS Works files after they've apparently pulled the plug on that too ...

Thanks very much for your work on this. I own seve...

2011-11-08T11:02:21.208-05:00

Thanks very much for your work on this. I own several of the Natural Keyboard Pro and find it my favorite keyboard over newer models. Without your work I'd still be struggling without the media keys. Thank you1

I agree with you about being suspicious of Microsoft. This kind of behavior only makes me LESS interested in buying their products. In fact, removing support like this for NO REASON simply makes me not want to buy ANY of their products or services. They clearly have no respect for their customers or interest in their loyalty. Thanks Microsoft, for making it easy to not give you my money.

super excellent tut. worked great on win7 x64

2011-09-20T00:39:08.630-04:00

super excellent tut. worked great on win7 x64

Would this restore the ability to control media pl...

2011-08-03T01:14:42.607-04:00

Would this restore the ability to control media players that is not focus ie playing in the background?

Me too, Internet Keyboard Pro. Many thanks!

2011-06-30T03:03:36.430-04:00

Me too, Internet Keyboard Pro. Many thanks!

Thanks you Very much. I used your tutorial and got...

2011-06-19T18:10:34.971-04:00

Thanks you Very much. I used your tutorial and got my Internet Keyboard Pro (Internet Keyboard Pro Model No RT9420 V 5FTWXX MS Part NO X05-62772 Product ID 51742-868-8491175-20040) also running on Win 7 x64 and fully programable keys support.

Genius! Thanks so much for sharing what you obvio...

2011-06-17T09:48:02.271-04:00

Genius!

Thanks so much for sharing what you obviously spent a long time figuring out and for the instructions that are so well thought out and organized.

God bless.

Sorry for the typo in the original post. I was ask...

2011-05-19T13:09:30.643-04:00

Sorry for the typo in the original post. I was asking if the big strings block was to be posted between the two last lines of the ITypeDevices.xml file so that /MicrosoftHardwareDevices would be the last line of the file?

Tried the fix on an older laptop running Win7 Star...

2011-05-19T13:03:24.891-04:00

Tried the fix on an older laptop running Win7 Starter. For starters, windows reports a problem when I try to install the unmodified ITPx86_1033_7.00.260.0.exe. I also had trouble in that the, "copy to clipboard" option did NOT appear when I hovered over the text in either Chrome or Internet Explorer. I cut the strings block into notepad and edited out the line numbers before pasting it into the end of the ITypeDevices.xml file. Is the block supposed to be pasted between the and the
lines?
Any chance that the patched files could be made available for download? If not, why not just add the notepad file (without line numbers?) with the appropriate changes?

Thanks

Have also made this work with the Internet Keyboar...

2011-04-16T03:14:32.090-04:00

Have also made this work with the Internet Keyboard Pro - under XP.

This was following the supplementary instructions at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproappcompat/thread/d671061d-be8d-48a2-95bd-ff27b0821fcc/

My NKP is one apparently modified by Microsoft esp...

2011-04-08T10:56:09.338-04:00

My NKP is one apparently modified by Microsoft especially for Dell (above the numeric keypad, it has the logo "DELL by Microsoft")

Also above the numeric keypad are three additional buttons, labeled (from left to right) "Dell.com", "Dell Support" and "Sleep".

Has anyone who has one of these beasts figured out what modifcations are necessary to make these keys programmable?

Presumably, it would only involve making an addition of appropriate ... blocks to the ITypeDevices.xml file, but I'm at a loss on how to figure out the , , and texts.

Any help would be appreciated!

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thanks for the instructions! worked great for me!

2011-03-21T15:08:34.345-04:00

thanks for the instructions! worked great for me!

Worked great. Thanks for going through the effort...

2011-02-15T21:05:28.659-05:00

Worked great. Thanks for going through the effort to write this up.

With simple strip of _Vista I was also able to get...

2011-02-01T14:03:18.576-05:00

With simple strip of _Vista I was also able to get my XP to play nicely. It has not liked me last several versions of their software.

Jason: "Microsoft now has Windows 7 drivers ...

2011-01-13T14:32:39.660-05:00

Jason: "Microsoft now has Windows 7 drivers for the Natural Multimedia Keyboard and it launches and controls iTunes just fine."

Yes, but this article is about the Natural Keyboard Pro, not the Natural Multimedia Keyboard.

Thanks a lot for this! Unfortunately, my "Mi...

2011-01-09T11:17:42.381-05:00

Thanks a lot for this!

Unfortunately, my "Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro" is not an USB keyboard. It's a PS/2 one.

When the PC starts, the driver doesn't and i always have to roll it back to Standard PS/2 keybard.

Thanks for this, good job seeing through MSs cynic...

2011-01-09T08:52:36.631-05:00

Thanks for this, good job seeing through MSs cynical ploy.

Great instructions. Worked like a charm! Thanks!

2010-10-11T23:03:34.949-04:00

Great instructions. Worked like a charm! Thanks!

Hi I have an NKP, but it has PS/2 connector. I hav...

2010-09-13T03:43:56.569-04:00

Hi
I have an NKP, but it has PS/2 connector. I have tried a PS/2 to USB adapter, but it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?
Ta
Deb

Adding your type32.inf Section for Windows ...

2010-07-25T21:23:16.454-04:00

Adding your type32.inf Section for Windows Vista [MsMfg.NT.6.0] changes to the [MsMfg] section makes your little hack work for us Neanderthal Luddites still running WinXP.

Thanks a million!

2010-06-21T17:32:17.734-04:00

Thanks a million!