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Thank you, young lady. I'll try some of this tomorrow; I've enjoyed far too much scotch at this late hour to play with user hostile software tonight. Damn, I'm loving the feel of this keyboard! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Will Rogers never met me.
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No experience on that particular model but here are my 2 cents:
Roger Wright wrote: and the crescent moon (like on an outhouse door) under the ESC key
Sounds like a quick "Sleep" for the PC. I had a keyboard with one, I removed the key after the hundred time I killed my game instead of accessing its menu.
Roger Wright wrote: here's something like a burning stick match on the key between CTRL and ALT
From the description it looks like the backlight control.
Roger Wright wrote: and something that looks like a menu between FN and the right CTRL
Should be the contextual menu (the one usually accessed with right click), it was a fixture on early Microsoft keyboards andf I mourn its absence every time I use a keyboard without it.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I think the moon is a sleep. You probably use it with the FN key.
The match stick one is your Win key
The other one is your right-click key (on win keyboards)
Real programmers use butterflies
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Interestingly enough, I am recently in the market for a new backlit keyboard.
Never heard of this brand. Almost 3K positive reviews on Amazon. Your approval with Roger's has me thinking this is my next purchase.
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glad to help. i only plug products if I feel they are exceptional. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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I found that I'm ok with a simple Logitech (my favourite is the Deluxe 250) for an MSRP of 25€. Honestly the best keyboard I used was bundled with a Dell workstation, sadly it wasn't mine.
At home I mostly play and I have a nice backlighted gaming keyboard, with a couple of awesome functionalities (8 macro button, toggleable electronic swap between WASD and arrow keys, system keys lock) for gaming. Not so good as a general use keyboard, one of the "Windows" keys has been removed and the context menu key has been replaced with its own Fn button. I use them a lot so I curse when using the computer for work.
On the contrary I recently used the worst keyboard I ever had the misfortune of using: an HP that
* was as flat as a wooden board;
* had very short and very creepy key travel;
* but mostly it had its own Fn button at the far low left, where there usually is the Ctrl key. Missing all the usual key combinations and replacing the selected text with a random letter is frustrating. Hulking out levels of frustrating.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I have had a DAS 4 series keyboard for the last three years. I bought it to replace a 30+ years old IBM PS2 keyboard that eventually literally fell apart.
The DAS is (still) brilliant. It cost a bit but, it is worth every penny.
I'm glad that you're getting on with yours.
Andy
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Shoddy software seems to be a hallmark from "high-end" keyboard manufacturers. My Logitech mechanical keyboard, just a little over 1 year old, crapped out (or at least the left control key did). I replaced it with a Corsair K70 RGB MK2. Fancy-schmancy back-lighting to trigger the most well-medicated epileptics. According to the Corsair iCue application, you can program any key to do anything: type text, invoke macros, run programs, and so on.
I tried to program a keypress to type the password I use at work. It's not hard, all simple ASCII.
You can not get there from here. I complained to customer service, who referred me to a YouTube video from a gaming community reviewer.
On the plus side, the back-lighting works okay. I've got it set to a simple pale blue that makes it easier for me to type.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Erm... Do you happen to know whether the switches are scotch-proof? That could be important, some late night.
Will Rogers never met me.
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The hardest thing I drink is coffee and I don't waste precious caffeine by spilling it, so I have not had occasion to find out.
Real programmers use butterflies
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The title says it all ...
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Two words: Clean install - preferably Windows 11.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Linux?
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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I'm with the folks that said reinstall. You can't debloat the windows registry, not really, and apps that claim to can do a partial job at best. There's rust besides that as well. It's all a nightmare.
I keep my documents/pictures/music/etc on a secondary drive. When I reinstall windows I don't tend to lose anything. I just remap my "library" directories to where they are on my 2nd drive with the fresh install. It doesn't give me my programs back, but it does give me all of the files I created with said programs.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Download the Windows 10 or 11 retail ISO and reimage it. There's really no way to get the OEM crapware off a machine short of a reimage.
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The current Win10 installer ISO does not fit on a single-sided DVD. When I recently installed Win10 on my new PC, I downloaded the MS tool which created a bootable flash drive.
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It fits on a dual layer DVD though, I'm not sure I see the problem.
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Paul Sanders (the other one) wrote: It fits on a dual layer DVD though, I'm not sure I see the problem.
If you don't have a dual layer DVD or burner, it's an insurmountable problem.
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Both are cheap and all burners have been dual layer for as long as I can remember.
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Thumb drives are cheaper. And re-usable. Also...if you have a functioning copy of Win10 already running and you just want a reload....Win10 has that built in. Just search for "reset" and it even has an option to download and install from the internet and it will grab the latest and greatest. De-crappifying comes from choosing the "keep nothing" option.
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Then you get crap but from the "decrapify" vendor.
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