[jhsrennie]

Maybe there's an option somewhere in Win8 to enable this ...

JR

[digitaltomj]

Possibly...I know I did my best to gain the control that windows 8 tried to take away from the user...that is the problem with windows 8...it runs smooth as butter but assumes the user wants to play whack-a-mole with the advanced settings (you cant even get to the computer management app without first allowing the "settings" option in one of the hard to find extra metro ui slide out menus.

[osamy]

I don't know why this ***** people won't help !!!!

I got the solution and I will share it :

FOR THE VOLUME:

Press Windows-R and in the Run dialog type:

notepad "%APPDATA%\XBMC\userdata\keymaps\appcommand.xml"

Click OK, and when you're prompted to create a new file answer Yes. Copy and paste the following into Notepad:

Code:

<keymap>
  <global>
    <appcommand>
      <volume_mute>Mute</volume_mute>
      <volume_down>VolumeDown</volume_down>
      <volume_up>VolumeUp</volume_up>
    </appcommand>
  </global>
</keymap>

Close Notepad and save the changes.


FOR THE 4 COLORED KEYS:

Press Windows-R and in the Run dialog type:

notepad "%APPDATA%\XBMC\userdata\keymaps\keyboard.xml"

Click OK, and when you're prompted to create a new file answer Yes. Copy and paste the following into Notepad:

Code:

<!--Template XBMC keyboard file-->
<keymap>
  <global>
    <keyboard>
      <one mod="ctrl,alt">XBMC.ActivateWindow(MyMusic)</one> <!-- Green -->
      <two mod="ctrl,alt">XBMC.ActivateWindow(MyVideos)</two> <!-- Orange -->
      <three mod="ctrl,alt">XBMC.ActivateWindow(MyPictures)</three> <!-- Blue -->
      <four mod="ctrl,alt">XBMC.ActivateWindow(Home)</four> <!-- Yellow -->
    </keyboard>
  </global>
</keymap>

Close Notepad and save the changes.

Restart your XBMC

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