Windows 10: Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 3050 Installation

Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 3050 InstallationI have a new-to-me and never used Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 3050, that came to me without the USB for installation. Can I order that from Microsoft? I tried to download the driver from the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center online but it did not have it. Thanks!!

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Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 3050 Hotkeys

I have a Microsoft wireless keyboard 3050. I have programmed the my favorite buttons (1-5) to open various files or folders. This only works intermittently sometimes switching to 'open items on task bar' function even though my settings in keyboard and mouse
center are set to 'open program, webpage or file'

Any suggestions?

 

Microsoft 3050 wireless keyboard, 2 issues.

No I didn't change any BIOS settings. However, good suggestion/question regarding if the old keyboard still works in BIOS. I still have the keyboard and the dongle. Most keys still worked, so I will test that and get back here.

Should the 3050 keyboard be expected to work in BIOS? To be honest, I was pretty surprised my previous wireless keyboard registered before windows had booted.

 

Microsoft Keyboard 3050

Thank you for your suggestions dated 12 August and subsequent followup.

The problem still persists and I hope the following information will help you to give me more advice.

• What are the basic functions that are not working?

Mail button, home, and headphone buttons work. The rest do not. Also, I cannot open the file which shows the functions of the various keys.

• Any changes to the device prior to the issue?

There was an update but I did not make a note of it, sorry.

• Which Windows version?

Windows Enterprise. Version 1607.

Note. The device will not download Version 1703 but tries daily.



I have performed the clean boot operation several times. The only result is that I can now use the three buttons listed above. No other changes.

Initially, when I first purchased the keyboard, I inserted batteries, plugged in the USB stick and everything worked OK. I have downloaded the software for the 3050 keyboard from the web and tried to use that – no improvement.



I must advise you that I am using an unactivated version of Windows10. After the initial download in late 2016 I experienced lots of problems. (See my past posts on these). In an effort to clear these I had a re-installation of W10 done, which has
turned out to be unactivated. The computer and 3050 keyboard then worked perfectly for some weeks until the keyboard stopped working. It works fine as a standard keyboard. The PC also works fine with an old wired keyboard.



One further point. I also have a laptop and have connected the 3050 keyboard to it. It works 100% on the laptop!!!

I hope you can come up with some ideas.

Thanks.