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original title: IS THERE A WAY TO TURN OFF THE "ON SCREEN KEYBOARD", SO IT DOSEN'T COME UP EVERYTIME I TURN ON MY COMPUTER?
HOW DO I TURN OFF THE ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD, SO IT DOSEN'T POP-UP EVERYTIME I TURN ON MY COMPUTER.
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Just go to the start screen, and then to Control Panel. In the search box for Control Panel, type Administrative Tools, or click it if you see it already. Scroll down to the Services shortcut and select that.
If you scroll down in the list of services to the 'T' area, you should see Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Service, or words to that effect. It is running, and on Automatic start type. Stop the service, then go into Properties and switch the startup type to Disabled.
Hi,
Control Panel - Ease of Access
Or WIN Key +U (Hold Win Key and touch U)
How to Turn the On-Screen Keyboard On or Off in Vista
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72733-screen-keyboard.html
Hide a persistant on-screen keyboard in Vista
http://itsvista.com/2007/06/itsvista-tip-60-hide-a-persistant-on-screen-keyboard-in-vista/
Enable/Disable On-Screen Keyboard
http://www.technipages.com/enabledisable-on-screen-keyboard.html
Hope this helps.
Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP <- profile - Windows Expert - Consumer : Bicycle <- Mark Twain said it right.
HOW DO I TURN OFF THE ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD, SO IT DOSEN'T POP-UP EVERYTIME I TURN ON MY COMPUTER.
Start button > Control Panel > classic view > Ease of Access > click Use the computer without a mouse or keyboard > UN-check Use ON-screen Keyboard > Save
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Thank you so very much for your instructions on how to disable the on screen keyboard. I read page after page, but all were confusing so I continued to read until I foun your post. You have helped to make my holidays much happier. And I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 20ll.
Hit this like a brick wall, but finally prevailed.
This problem was inherited from a Vista Home Premium x64 upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium x64, and it sailed right through the upgrade like a hot knife cutting through warm butter.
The on screen keyboard came up prior to any user login, right at boot.
Nothing seemed to make it go away, and I've tried a lot of things that I found on the internet, and none of them ever worked.
Finally decided to chase it down through the registry, using regedit, invoking the find function for "osk.exe"
Found several instances of it, and upon attempting to delete all the OSK keys, I hit the next brick wall, which was a locked registry for this little demon, with or without using admin privileges in regedit.
More gnashing of teeth and a day later, I finally found the method for taking full control of the locked OSK registry keys**HERE** .
Then I went back and searched the registry once again, and every single time I found "osk.exe" I deleted the entire key, and just nuked that thing into oblivion.
Yes, I know I probably also rendered the machine incapable of ever using the on screen keyboard ever again, using such overwhelmingly heavy-handed techniques, but I really do not care, do not expect to ever need the stupid thing anyway, and the satisfaction of eradicating it from the face of the earth after being annoyed by it for far too long was very rewarding.
It's gone and I'm happy.
If all else fails, maybe try this for yourself and see what happens.
