Use multimedia key to start winamp

Question

I have toshiba Satellite pro p300 25w. The multimeia keys (start, stop, fw, prev) are associated with Winamp, that works fine. I would like the start-multimedia button to start Winamp, now it starts Windows Media Player. I believe Toshiba calls them "Easy Keys".

Answer 1

You can use AutoHotKey to set those buttons up to whatever you want

Special Keys

If your keyboard or mouse has a key not listed above, you might still be able to make it a hotkey by using the following steps (requires Windows XP/2000/NT or later):

1. Ensure that at least one script is running that is using the keyboard hook. You can tell if a script has the keyboard hook by opening its main window and selecting "View->Key history" from the menu bar.
2. Double-click that script's tray icon to open its main window.
3. Press one of the "mystery keys" on your keyboard.
4. Select the menu item "View->Key history"
5. Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Somewhere near the bottom are the key-down and key-up events for your key. NOTE: Some keys do not generate events and thus will not be visible here. If this is the case, you cannot directly make that particular key a hotkey because your keyboard driver or hardware handles it at a level too low for AutoHotkey to access. For possible solutions, see further below.
6. If your key is detectible, make a note of the 3-digit hexadecimal value in the second column of the list (e.g. 159).

7. To define this key as a hotkey, follow this example:

   SC159:: ; Replace 159 with your key's value. MsgBox, %A_ThisHotKey% was pressed. return

Reverse direction: To remap some other key to become a "mystery key", follow this example:

; Replace 159 with the value discovered above. Replace FF (if

needed) with the ; key's virtual key, which can be discovered in the first column of the Key History screen. #c::Send {vkFFsc159}

Alternate solutions: If your key or mouse button is not detectible by the Key History screen, one of the following might help:

Reconfigure the software that came with your mouse or keyboard (sometimes accessible in the Control Panel or Start Menu) to have the "mystery key" send some other keystroke. Such a keystroke can then be defined as a hotkey in a script. For example, if you configure a mystery key to send Control+F1, you can then indirectly make that key as a hotkey by using ^F1:: in a script.

Try DllCall: Support for Human Interface Devices. You can also try searching the forum for a keyword like RawInput*.

The following is a last resort and generally should be attempted only in desperation. This is because the chance of success is low and it may cause unwanted side-effects that are difficult to undo:

Disable or remove any extra software that came with your keyboard or mouse or change its driver to a more standard one such as the one built into the OS. This assumes there is such a driver for your particular keyboard or mouse and that you can live without the features provided by its custom driver and software.

Answer 2

Make sure that winamp is your default media player. Not sure if you can set that in easy Keys, but try changing that in "Default Programs" in Windows.