How to Change the Keyboard Settings

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Michael Burton, with michaelburtonfilms.org, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and we're here talking about, using Microsoft Windows. What I want to talk to you about now is, how to change the settings on your keyboard. Let me start out by saying, that Windows XP is a registered trademark of Microsoft, and I am in no way affiliated with Microsoft. To change the settings on your keyboard, are very simple, it's really simple. Go down to the bottom left hand corner, and open up your start menu. You're going to find the option for your keyboard under the control panel. So over here, on the right hand side, you're going to left click on your control panel, this brings up your control panel window, you'll see the option in the upper right hand corner for printers and other hardware, go ahead and click on that, because your keyboard is considered hardware. Under pick a control panel icon, you'll see the word keyboard, we're going to go here to the keyboard, obviously, this brings up you keyboard properties window. As you can see, there's a lot of different settings that you can change, character repeats, you can change the speeds of all the repeat delay, and the repeat rate. There's also the cursor blink rate, how fast your cursor is blinking if maybe you're typing a word document. You can also come up here, there's two more tabs, there's the hardware tab, which shows exactly which device you're using, which keyboard you're using, and if you had multiple. Also if you come down here to the bottom, it gives you the option to troubleshoot if your device is having an issue or a problem. It also gives you the ability to click on properties, and to go to the properties of your individual keyboard, and up here, there's some tabs for the driver, and for power management of your keyboard. I believe under power management, you can choose right here, to allow this device to bring the computer out of standby, that means your computer, or your keyboard will always remain on, in order to touch like the space, or one of the buttons to wakeup your computer, if it's in standby. Being that I have a wireless keyboard, this means that my batteries drain a lot faster, because it doesn't shut down my keyboard, it keeps it on, so I can bring it out of standby, so I go through a lot more batteries than someone that does not check this, would go through. Okay, the other tab up here at the top, is buttons. If you click on the buttons tab, this brings up different buttons on your keyboard. These buttons are for, the buttons at the top of the keyboard, that usually on most keyboards will say search, club, Internet, info, and e-mail. These are kind of like quick buttons, so that all you have to do is push one button, it's kind of like speed dial on your telephone. So for right now, if we double click on one of these, for example the Internet one, double click on there, it brings up the configuration. Right now it's under default. So the default, as you can see here, the label is called launching Internet, and the address it will go to is, hp.com. So if we were to push that Internet button on the top of our keyboard, it will automatically take us to hp.com. But we want to change that. So we're going to go to this drop down menu, under choose a button capability, we're going to go to, complex remote page with label. Now if we want it to open up some sort of file on our computer, like lets say for example, the Internet, maybe we just wanted it to open up iTunes, then we will select the option, simple local file with label, and then we will put in the program that we want to. See if we click on that, it gives us the option for where it says, address, it gives us the option down here to the right, to browse, and we can browse a program or file located on our computer. But if we go up, on the drop down list, and we choose, complex remote page with label, it's going to ask us for, we can label it whatever we want, but then we can also put in any address we want. So if we choose Internet, lets say we want it to pull up, yahoo.com, when we push the Internet button on our keyboard. Now that we've entered the address, we just click, okay. And now, as you can see right here, our Internet button is set to launch, yahoo.com, every time we touch that button on our keyboard. And so it goes for all these other buttons on the top of our keyboard as well."