Easy-Eject key - any smart suggestions?

[mhca]

Hi everybody.

I have now made a clean install of Windows XP and only installed the few programs that I actually need. I have also set the Access IBM button to lock the computer.

And then I got to wonder if I could maybe reconfigure the Easy-Eject button to something useful since I think the easyeject utility is pure crap on a laptop where I am not using CD drives, PCMCIA cards or anything else except for a USB key once in a while.

Have any of you gotten any good suggestions and is it even possible to assign this for anything?

If it isn't possible I don't really care. It was only because it had this little blue icon on it I thought I could maybe assign it for something.

[aceyx]

Are there any utilities you use often?

I use PGPDisk, so I used to have to click around to get things rolling. Using just the keyboard is faster for me, so I mapped it to an alt+^ combo instead.

[K0LO]

You could have a look at this page to get some ideas:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Button
Although mostly Linux-oriented, it does have some info about use of the Fn-keys in Windows. I've used this to map the "Access IBM" button to my favorite app. With a little experimentation and a look in the registry, perhaps you could figure out how to map the other Fn-keys.

[mhca]

Thx both. But I have realized that I won't really use these kind of shortcut keys on my laptop.

Only thing I decided to change was the IBM Access button which I use to lock the computer.