Quick Fix File: Turn Zoom into Scroll on MS Natural Ergonomic 4000 Keyboard

By Roy Osherove In Cool Tools

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Historical article · Originally published December 18, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

Like Oren, I like my MS Keyboard, but I hate it having this useless, oh so very useless, zoom key in the center of it.

I also found out about this hack on how to get the zoom key to be  scroll up-down key, but it involves doing xsl work etc.. so this post is for you if you have the MS natural 4000 keyboard and all you want is to have the zoom turned to scroll in less than 1 minute.

  • Download this zip file that I made.

  • unzip it into "c:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType Pro\"

  • run the ZoomToScroll.bat file.

you should be done.

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  1. Annoyed keyboard user ·

    any possible way to get that link up and running again?

  2. Roy Osherove ·

    try now. The site is back online.

  3. McJJJ ·

    Thanks! Works like a charm on Windows 7x64!

  4. Valnjes ·

    Thanks!

    Works fine with Chrome and Firefox!

    W7 SP1 x64.

  5. Jim ·

    Thanks. It works very well.

    But in my PC, windows 7/64, the folder is

    c:\Program Files\Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center\

    and I need a restart. Perhaps MS changed the path.

  6. Ben ·

    Not working with the new Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center.

  7. me ·

    Still works well, running on Win 8.1 64bit using Intellitype

    Don't forget to use admin privileges, and you might need to run the bat from an elevated command prompt in the right directory. Thanks!

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