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"A lot of people don't realise the amount of cultural and marital problems we would solve today if only we'd get rid of the little things, like that darn Scroll Lock button." - Jeff Bush

"The problem in the world today isn't war, the health service, or terrorism, but it's sorting out what those Useless Keys are for. That's the real crisis in today's culture." - Toni Bleh

"I used to spend all my time on forums and discussion boards. Thanks to your great website I've found a new way to waste my time!" - MyNameisNeo

"Thanks to Ban Useless Keys, I am now voiding my keyboard's warranty." - Elle Capone

Useful Software for Useless Stuff

Now I know you are sitting there and wondering if there are efficient ways to use the power of these extra keys and an extra LED, without having to remove them. Some people go out of their way to spend absurd amounts of money on keyboards with extra internet keys and flashy things, but you've got unused buttons right there in front of you on your £4.99 bargain package from DELL.

Well, here I have listed a few top notch programs that you could use to put those useless keys to practical use:

  • Hotkey plugin for Winamp - Assign your least favourite keys to your favourite functions in your favourite MP3 player for Windows. Well, apparently, I couldn't figure out how to use the thing, but it got a lot of rave reviews, so who could knock it?

  • KeyB Vis Alpha plugin for Winamp - This plugin finds some use for those 3 LEDs above your numpad. Whenever your music is playing, the lights will flicker sporadically in time with the music. Not recommended for people with epileptic problems.

  • Hotkeycontrol XP 4.2 - This handy software allows you to setup hotkeys on your keyboard for all sorts of things. Restart your computer, change volume, delete Windows Media Player, open your CD tray, close it again, open and close it. All at the comfort of your keyboard and its most useless keys.

  • Scroll Lock Resurrection - The old usage of Scroll Lock lives once more, with this nifty application. Installing Scroll Lock Resurrection allows your Windows to behave just like old DOS did, so that when you turn Scroll Lock on you can use the cursor keys to scroll the current window! Genius!