Rosewill RK-V1TP Wireless Keyboard Review

Setup

The Rosewill RD-V1TP does not have any setup instructions, quick start guide, or user’s guide. Instead, the features and instructions for use are printed on the back of the box which is shown in Figure 4. The box includes a diagram of the keyboard and a listing of shortcut keys, shortcut buttons, and finger gestures for the touchpad.

Figure 4: The back of the box

 Although this does save on excess paper, it won’t be good for those of us who like to save the instructions. Our first thought was that this would be okay as long as the instructions were online, but unfortunately, we could not find any of these diagrams or lists online.

We wished for the inclusion of a Quick Start Guide. There are some setup instructions on the box, but they are not at the top where you might expect them. Instead they are sandwiched between the features diagram and the package contents, so they are very easy to miss. The box instructions state, “To pair, press the “BIND” button on the receiver, then click “Fn+F11” button together on the keyboard, or click the RESET button on the bottom of the keyboard."

While we are just geeky enough to be able to follow these instructions, uninitiated folks who tried the setup didn’t know if they should plug the receiver into the computer and then click the BIND button or press the button then plug it in. Also, while the RESET button is marked, the BIND button is not.  There is only one button on the receiver so why not just say “press the button on the receiver” instead of using the word BIND, which some may find confusing.

That said, the actual setup is fairly easy. Of course, as you can see in Figure 5, we had to insert the batteries into the bottom of the keyboard. In Figure 5, you can also see the RESET button on the left.

Figure 5: The back of the keyboard

On one Windows 7 computer, we had to restart the computer with the keyboard plugged in to get it to be recognized, but on several other XP, Vista, and Win 7 computers, the keyboard was recognized without rebooting.