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    P-7811FX: Disable Keyboard

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Typhex, Jan 29, 2009.

  1. Typhex

    Typhex Notebook Enthusiast

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    Does anyone know an easy way to disable the laptop's keyboard? (Only for temporary reasons)

    Whenever I am at home I have my laptop on a laptop stand at my desk and I have my Logitech G15 plugged into it and a keyboard for my eMachine Desktop computer on top of my laptop's keyboard. The keyboard on top of my laptop keeps hitting keys on my laptop keyboard.Which brings me to the question of how I can temporarily disable my laptop's keyboard when I am using it on my laptop stand.
     
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  2. Jakamo5

    Jakamo5 Tetra Vaal

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    Just go into device manager and disable "PS/2 Keyboard" under "Keyboards". Re-enable it when ur done.
     
    Jakamo5, Jan 29, 2009
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    vinceboiii Animals are friends, not food.

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    no idea how but i think you might gotta mess with REGIT with this one
     
    vinceboiii, Jan 29, 2009
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    Citizen86 Notebook User Guy

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    Don't lay the keyboard on your laptop? haha... seems like an easier fix. Besides, it could potentially scratch your laptop, which is bad.
     
    Citizen86, Jan 30, 2009
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    Typhex Notebook Enthusiast

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    @Jakamo5: I can't do that because the "Disable" button is grayed out. The only available option is to uninstall the driver, and I don't want to do that.

    @Citizen86: Well it's really the only place on my desk to put a second keyboard, and I don't really want to get a KVM switch, but I might get one eventually. I actually have a paper folder in between my keyboard and my laptop, so it won't scratch it.

    Any other ideas guys? You'd think this would be easy...
     
    Typhex, Jan 30, 2009
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    Citizen86 Notebook User Guy

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    Citizen86, Jan 30, 2009
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