I plugged in the receiver and installed the 3 AA batteries into the keyboard that come with it.
You can see below how they fit in:

The batteries supplied are just common disposable alkaline batteries. I was hoping they would have included some nice Nimh rechargeables, but that would have probably doubled the keyboard price. I plugged the receiver into my computer's PS2 port - no USB I'm afraid, so all you anti legacy freaks will be annoyed. The receiver isn't very large, about 8.5 cm diameter (3.5 inches) and 3cm thick (1 inch). Here it is pictured below:

I must admit I thought it was a mouse at first due to tis shape and size.

The procedure for linking the keyboard to the mouse goes as follows:-

1. Press button on top of receiver.
2. Press button on back of keyboard.

So as you can see, hardly the most taxing of procedures. The LED on the receiver will blink a bit and then stay on continuously once they are linked. A neat little touch is that the receiver light blinks every time you strike a key.

I started Windows up and installed the software that came with the keyboard. I then uninstalled the software and installed Microsoft Intellitype software. Quite simply the software that comes with the keyboard is awful, it leaves a horrible icon in your system tray - who in their right mind does not have the time to go into the start menu to change the settings of their keyboard? There was no option to turn off the icon either. Also, the media key did not seem to like opening Winamp. So once I had got rid of it and installed the Intellitype software it all worked beautifully. Without any mucking around Winamp opened first time and all the play/pause and skip track buttons worked fine even while playing games. The other function buttons also worked fine (e-mail, homepage, search, refresh, back, forward and a whole heap of other crap I never use).

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