media keys

I was wondering if anyone could help me. A few days ago, I found the media keys on my keyboard stopped working. I tried the keyboard on my laptop, and everything was ok, so reasone dit must be my desktop. I traced the problem to the HID service- on my laptop it was runnig, on my desktop it...

I just got my sidewinder X6 yesterday. It works fine on my XP laptop with every function working but not on my Windows 7 64-bits desktop. Basically none of the top keys is functioning except for the brightness knob. I can only use the keyboard for normal typing, but not my media keys, volume...

Anyone know how to get all special keys (fn, media) working on a Sony Vaio in Windows 7? Obviously Sony has no drivers for these and no, the Vista versions do not work at all. Tried already. I'm using Windows 7 7100, 64bit. Sony Vaio VGN-AW190 (came with Vista 64bit originally) Thanks.

1.) I have the Superdisk LS/120/240 (made by Matshita) external floppy drive that worked flawlessly with Windows Vista but is now not working with Windows 7. When I click on the yellow exclamation point to troubleshoot I am offered the button to apply the fix of reinstalling the device driver...