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By David Röthlisberger. Comments welcome at david@rothlis.net.

Last updated 4 Oct 2011. This article is Creative Commons licensed.

The Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 doesn’t feel very “Mac-like”, at least not out-of-the-box. Read on for helpful settings to improve the experience, and a brief review of the keyboard at the end.

Sep 01, 2011 With IntelliType Pro 8.2, setup automatically detects your keyboard model. If you have more than one keyboard attached to your computer, each keyboard model can have different settings. PS/2 devices are no longer supported in IntelliType Pro 8.2. Jul 20, 2012  Hi everyone, I use the Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 with a German layout and the current IntelliType Pro driver on a Mac (OS X 10.5). When activating the NEK 4000-specific German keyboard layout supplied with IntelliType Pro for Mac, Java.

If your kernel panics, upgrade the drivers

OS X kernel panic

On Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), the IntelliType Pro 8.0 drivers caused me kernel panics at least once a day.

The recent 8.2 driversdon’t cause kernel panics on Lion (OS X 10.7). I haven’t tested them on Snow Leopard, but I assume it is the new drivers, rather than the new Operating System, that contain the fix. Readers have reported that the older 7.1 drivers work well with Snow Leopard (note that the 7.1 drivers say they are for the older Natural Keyboard Pro, but they also work for this newer keyboard). Let me know if you have tested other combinations of driver/OS versions.

Or don't use the Microsoft drivers at all

Ironically, the Microsoft drivers stop OS X from recognising the keyboard for what it is! Without the drivers, OS X reports “Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000”; with the IntelliType drivers, it’s a mere “Keyboard”.

With IntelliType drivers

As the last straw, if you remap your Caps Lock key to Control via Apple’s Keyboard preference pane, with the Microsoft drivers installed the remapping will be lost every time you restart.

The following table should help you decide whether you want the Microsoft drivers. More detailed explanations follow.

How to uninstall the Microsoft drivers

The IntelliType UnInstaller is in the Utilities sub-folder of your Applications folder. (If you installed the IntelliPoint mouse drivers, which were bundled in the same installer, the corresponding UnInstaller is in the same location.)

If you don’t want to run the uninstallers, you can remove the following manually:

• /System/Library/Extensions/MicrosoftKeyboard.kext

• /System/Library/Extensions/MicrosoftMouse.kext (if you also installed the IntelliPoint drivers)

• /Library/Keyboard Layouts/Microsoft Keyboards.bundle

• and the Microsoft Keyboard preference pane (open System Preferences, and right-click the Microsoft Keyboard icon, or drag it off the window in a puff of smoke).

Swap the Alt and Windows keys

Microsoft Natural modifier keys

The Windows key is automatically treated as Command (⌘), but on Apple keyboards the Command key is next to the spacebar, with Option (Alt) the next key out. On the Microsoft keyboard this is reversed, and the IntelliType drivers helpfully have a setting to reverse these two keys; luckily OS X also has this functionality built in.

It’s under the Modifier Keys button of the Keyboard System Preferences pane.

Simply map Option to Command, and vice-versa. These settings are per-keyboard, so you won’t mess up your MacBook’s built-in keyboard.

While you’re here you can also map your Caps Lock to Control, if you so wish.

Use the Application key as a Command or Option key

Application key

To the right of the spacebar, this keyboard has an “Application” (or Context Menu) key instead of a Windows key. The IntelliType drivers include a setting to treat this key as Command, but OS X has no such setting.

Apple’s customizable XML keylayouts only allow mapping key codes to output characters, but not changing or adding modifier keys. Graphical interfaces built on top of this mechanism, such as Ukelele, have the same limitations. You’ll need the open-source KeyRemap4MacBook.

In spite of its name, KeyRemap4MacBook works on any Mac (with OS X 10.4 or later). It doesn’t allow arbitrary key mappings, but, in the best open-source tradition, it does have zillions of settings. The one you want is under “For PC Users” » “Change PC Application Key” » “Application Key to Option_L” (i.e. left-option, not option+“L”). What you set here doesn’t seem to be affected by OS X’s own modifier keys remapping.

Media keys

The keyboard’s mute, volume and play/pause keys all work out of the box, no IntelliType required. There are no keys for previous/next song.

(Without the Microsoft drivers) None of the remaining media keys work (web/home, search, mail, calculator, “favorites” 1 through 5, back and forward, and the zoom slider).

Function keys

The Function keys (F1, etc) behave as such (as opposed to brightness, volume, etc), regardless of what you set in the Keyboard preference pane. If you press “F Lock” the F keys simply do nothing. Luckily the F Lock remembers its setting across reboots.

There is no Fn modifier key as on the Mac keyboards.

KeyRemap4MacBook allows you to map the F keys to the usual brightness, volume, etc. but then you’d lose the normal F keys.

Insert, Delete, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down

On the Mac OS there is no such thing as an Insert/Overwrite toggle (even on Apple’s extended keyboard there is no Insert key). So unsurprisingly, the Insert key does nothing.

Delete works. Page-Up and -Down work. Home and End scroll to the top and bottom of the window instead of moving the cursor to the beginning or end of the line (but this is consistent with the behaviour of Apple keyboards) except in Microsoft Office, where Home and End behave as on the PC.

Numeric keypad

Num Lock doesn’t work, but fortunately it is stuck in the numeric mode.

Final thoughts

I initially liked this keyboard: The split and tenting angles provide a comfortable resting position, it has Command, Option and Control keys for both hands, and the price is quite reasonable.

But after several months, I have stopped using this keyboard. It’s just too large! Keys like Return, Backspace, and Escape are quite far away from the home position. I don’t really need a numeric keypad (it forces the mouse that much further away). The keys are loud (especially the clunky spacebar) and the key travel distance (and the force required to press them) is more than I’d like.

These are of course quite personal opinions, and this keyboard could be just perfect for someone else. As a computer programmer I do a lot of typing, so I try to optimise for ergonomics.

Kinesis Freestyle for Mac:
No right-hand Control key

I really like having all three modifiers (Command, Option and Control) available to my left and right hands, though this may not be so important for non-programmers. I don’t think I’d buy an ergonomic keyboard without this feature. The Kinesis keyboards, and Apple’s own keyboards (except the Apple external keyboard with numeric keypad), lack the right-hand Control.

IntelliType was last updated by Microsoft for Lion, 10.7.x. It has not been touched since then, though MS continues to keep the Windows version updated. It's more than safe to say this software has been abandoned. If you look at older MS Ergonomic 4000 keyboard boxes, it says the product is for both Windows and Mac. Newer boxes say Windows only. There's proof positive you will never see another IntelliType update for Mac users.

The following instructions will work for Mountain Lion, 10.8.x through Yosemite, 10.10.x.

Microsoft hasn't fixed the issue with the IntelliType drivers so they load by themselves. You have to open the System Preferences and click on the Microsoft Keyboard or Mouse panes to get them to load. The following will eliminate the need to perform these manual steps.

I'd like to give credit to the person who first discovered this, but having found the same text in numerous places, I can't single out the origin.

1. Navigate to the folder /Library/PreferencePanes/ of the startup drive
2. Right click on Microsoft Mouse.prefpane for mice, Microsoft Keyboard.prefPane for keyboards
3. From the resulting contextual menu, select Show Package Contents
4. Navigate down to Contents > Resources
5. Leave the Resources folder open on the desktop and open the System Preferences
6. Select Users & Groups
7. Click on your user account and then the Login Items tab
8. Go back to the Resources folder on the desktop, select the file MicrosoftMouseHelper or MicrosoftKeyboardHelper, then drag and drop it into the Login Items window on the right hand side of the Login Items page (in the System Preferences window).

In the sample below, I added the keyboard helper.

Repeat the steps if you added the keyboard helper and also need the mouse helper.

Now when you restart or start up your Mac, these helpers will load automatically.

For users wondering if this is some sort of hack, it is not. If you've used IntelliType in Lion, Snow Leopard, or other previous versions of the Mac OS, you'll see that MicrosoftMouseHelper and/or MicrosoftKeyboardHelper are in the user account Login Items. What's probably happening is security changes in Mountain Lion and forward, such as sandboxing, are preventing these Login Items from being added during installation. All you're doing is manually completing a step the IntelliType installer is failing at.

El Capitan 10.11.x and later.

There's only one way to use IntelliType in El Capitan and Sierra. You have to disable System Integrity Protection and leave it off. This is, of course, a very poor idea. In High Sierra, you can't use it at all.

This is due to IntelliType's kernel extension being unsigned. It's old, and Apple hadn't started requiring vendors to code sign their apps yet back in Lion, 10.7.x. Through each new major release of macOS, the restriction on kernel extensions kept getting tighter. In El Capitan and Sierra, you could still use an unsigned kernel extension as long as SIP was off. In High Sierra, unsigned extensions aren't allowed. Period.

That means you need to use something else to control your Ergonomic 4000 keyboard along with other MS keyboards and mice that have many extra keys that do nothing without a driver that can assign actions to them.

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A very important thing to consider when choosing a replacement driver is that you don't purchase something outdated, or the developer isn't giving much attention to anymore. 32 bit apps are on the way out. Mojave, 10.14.x will only provide limited support for 32 bit apps. The next major release after Mojave will be 64 bit only. So any 32 bit only software you buy now will be dead after Mojave.

I've tried both of these drivers. Of the 8 or so I tried, they're really the only two good choices and are already 64 bit.

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Microsoft office mac teacher discount. ControllerMate - Okay, let's just say it. ControllerMate has a very confusing interface with not a whole lot of descriptions or good video demos to figure it out. But once you get it, it's actually not hard to use. Its advantage is you can get it to control darn near anything on virtually any keyboard or mouse. There's even an Ergonomic 4000 layout you can download from them for the app. That makes it possible to assign every single key IntelliType could.

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USB Overdrive - Much easier to use and understand interface. You can't access as many keys on the Ergo 4000, but you can cover most of them. The only ones in particular you can't assign an action to are the five silver keys at the top center, and the star key below those.