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keyboard remapper?

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my new laptop doesn't have multimedia keyboard, so I can't control my media player (skip/pause/etc) without activating its window first.

i found something that looked promising, a registry hack called sharpkeys http://www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys/

the problem is that it can only change single keys and not combinations. Do you know of something better that would allow me to e.g. substitute <ctrl+Alt+P> for multimedia play/pause key?
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Perhaps HotkeyP is a solution for you.
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Or one could avail the many applets media players like to stick in the trays for just such occasions.

For instance, the interactive taskbar thumbnails found in Win7 upon mousing-over a given application icon.

Image

Or you could remain a keyboard slave.  That anti-Qwerty Dvorak fella turns in his grave, again and again, forever regretting that he never thought of the mouse.

(Yeah, unhelpful I know, but you've been having such a fun time with your new Win7 laptop that I just thought I'd offer a suggestion you'd happily ignore.  :wink:)

Cosmo's idea is better, and more practical, as usual.
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the whole idea is to keep on working on visual studio while changing tracks and pausing music!
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Yeah, I know - see those little buttons under the album cover?  They're clickable without opening the app.  Hence the phrase interactive taskbar thumbnail icon.

Even Image needs the mouse from time to time.
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so you are suggesting i take my fingers off the keyboard? :P
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