I am using Windows 7 on an Acer Aspire 5755G laptop. How can I disable my laptop keyboard without disabling the wireless external keyboard?  (I guess I am looking for the Windows 7 equivalent of .)
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I have a HP Compaq Presario C700 laptop with Windows 7 installed on it.  My laptop's keyboard is not working properly; some keys never work and some keys will keep on pressing. I've formatted the OS but it didn't solve my problem.  I bought an external USB keyboard and it works well. As some keys in the built-in keyboard activate themselves, I still couldn't work effectively.  After searching Google I tried the following steps to disable the built-in keyboard:   Disabled keyboard drivers: This didn't work because when the system reboots, the driver gets installed again automatically. Installed irrelevant driver for keyboard: This failed - I couldn't install the driver. After rebooting it installed the correct driver automatically.   Can anyone help explain how I can temporarily uninstall my built-in keyboard? I don't want to remove it manually (removing the hardware cable).
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I have a laptop which I hook up to an external display when I'm at home. I also connected an external keyboard and mouse which makes it more comfortable for me.  I have noticed that pressing caps lock on the external keyboard does not light up the capslock indicator of the laptop keyboard (and vice versa).  When googling, I came across the setleds function, but when I type it into a console all I get is this:  KDGKBLED: Inappropriate ioctl for device Error reading current flags setting. Maybe you are not on the console?   Any idea if I can get this working?
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I have bought Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000. It's working just as I want it except that "back" button on the left side. I constantly hit it with the thumb and browser goes back. I am not used to this behavior, since my older mouse didn't have such a button. I just want to get rid of it -- disable the button once and forever, so if I clicked it -- nothing should happen.
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I am using an external keyboard on my laptop and the Super key doesn't work. The laptop's keyboard works just fine, every key is regularly detected.  I tried using xinput to debug this issue. Here you can see the output of xinput list, the device I am having issues with is the Cooler Master Technology Inc. MasterKeys Pro L White.  ⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)] ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)] ⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                id=15   [slave  pointer  (2)] ⎜   ↳ Bluetooth  Mouse                          id=16   [slave  pointer  (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]     ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Video Bus                                 id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Power Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Sleep Button                              id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Chicony USB 2.0 Camera: Chicony           id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=14   [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Cooler Master Technology Inc. MasterKeys Pro L White  id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]     ↳ Cooler Master Technology Inc. MasterKeys Pro L White  id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]   I tried running xinput test-xi2 12 to see if the events from the keyboard where issued. All keys are working except for the super keys. I tested the keyboard with my desktop PC and all keys are working fine.   I am running Ubuntu 16.04.5 with kernel version 4.13.0-45-generic, Unity as Desktop Environment and Compiz as Windows Manager.
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It's impossible to write this way, text gets deleted, windows change, random tabs open. I've tried every solution I came across but none actually solve it (some don't even work)  I've tried installing touchpad indicator, I've tried adding a syndaemon option from startup application, I tried the same but from the terminal, nothing works.  I Just want to disable the touchpad completely while typing, no scrolling, no moving the cursor, nothing.
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I am quite proficient with the keyboard and try to only use the mouse when necessary. Given that context I was very familiar with the shortcut keys in MS Outlook 2003 and never needed to use the mouse to use that product. Now my company has recently upgraded to MS Outlook 2010 and I am finding it impossible to operate it without having to use the mouse. In particular replying to meeting requests with the old shortcut keys no longer seems possible.   I have held down the ALT key and sometimes it shows some shortcuts on the ribbon but this seems to be limited to ALT+H which tends to alternate between designating "Accept" and "Tentative" without any keys for the other options. Also as this appears to switch between "Accept" and "Tentative" one can't even use this consistently without first having to check what it means for each particular instance.  Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!
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The keyboard on my laptop seems to be typing by itself:   It sometimes types characters like 134, whether by itself or when I hit certain keys. Repeating characters may appear unexpectedly. The system volume may change by itself, or windows like the Print dialog or Web browser may appear.   This can happen without any input or as I type, and may occur more often when certain keys are pressed. Sometimes, the keyboard fails to respond altogether. This is happening regardless of the software involved.  Is there a ghost in my keyboard—is my keyboard broken?  A sample of text from the keyboard might look like this (normal QWERTY...ASDF...ZXC... sequence is expected):   QWERTYUIOPASDF)(G@*HKLZXCVBN QWERTYIOPASDFGL!#ZXCVB13 QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVB!#N qwertyu41iopasdf19g13h28j113k4113zxcvb4n qwerty4u1iopasdf0g7h1jklzxcvb13m qwert13uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuiopasdf87091134ghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh13jk13zxcvb14      This question comes up often and the answers are usually the same. This post is meant to provide a definitive, canonical answer for this problem. Feel free to edit the answer to add additional details.
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I don't like to switch languages with ⌘ + space. Is there any way I can use more common keyboard combinations:    Control + Shift or Control + Opion or Caps Lock   I'd preferred the simplest solution possible. Can I just change some system settings instead of installing a software to solve this problem?
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I opened my laptop today to find that my arrow keys, excluding the left arrow, and Delete key are not functioning correctly.  The down arrow brings up the notification that the trackpad was disabled, the delete key brings up the notification that the trackpad was enabled, and the up and right arrows don't seem to do anything.  I'm running Ubuntu 14.04, I have an Acer laptop, and the keyboard model is set to Generic 105 key (Intl) PC.  The keyboard language is set to English(US).  I tried changing the model to a few different ones, but it didn't solve the problem.  I noticed that a lot of people had this problem in the past, but I couldn't find a solution for myself.  If you experienced this problem recently, how did you solve it?  Or do you have any ideas on how I may fix it.  Also, I have Ubuntu installed as my operating system and am not using a VM.
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Is there any sort of installation that can be added to provide power options for when I am running on battery? I wouldn't want to always be on power savings, so I would hope I could switch between Eco and performance like I do with windows 7. Anything like this out there?
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Every time I turn on my laptop (from a completely off state) the Bluetooth is on by default. How can I prevent it from turning on at startup and then only turn it on (manually) when I want to connect any Bluetooth devices like mouse and keyboard?
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When using the volume buttons (+, -, mute) there is no reaction, neither on laptop keyboard nor on USB keyboard. No popup, no volume change, and no sound indication.  Volume control with the mouse works fine.  The buttons are working and get recognized:  Checked with keyboard system settings tool: they get recognized by the tool both from the laptop directly as well as from my USB keyboard.  Who can help?
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I am trying to use my HTPC with only a keyboard. Even though my keyboard is from Microsoft, they failed basic windows certification and did not include a menu-key, the one that shows a mouse cursor and a menu, usually located on the right of the space bar, between alt and control. without that i can't do many actions. On windows XP (or maybe NT? not sure) right alt+enter used to emulate that key and i would get the context menu... but on windows 7 that ain't so. Is there any other key combination that can act as an alternative for context menu on selected items on windows 7?
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On my Windows 7 system, and in all programs, when I scroll down with my mouse, it will scroll partway down then then scroll partway up.  It is totally erratic and is driving me crazy.  I do have a wireless keyboard/mouse, but I do not use the mouse, as it does not work: I have replaced it with a "wired" mouse.  I have tried adjusting the mouse settings (number of lines to scroll, and turned off "acceleration, as I think it was called).  Does anyone know how to fix this?
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I have 3 different keyboard layouts set up on my laptop and use Ctrl+Shift+[1-3] key combination to switch between them.  Like that:    However, after locking and unlocking Windows (with a password), these hotkeys don't work anymore and key sequence is rolled back to (None):    Signing out from Windows or rebooting the laptop sets everything back to normal, until lock/unlock again.  I think this behaviour is related to the usage of the same hotkeys in File Explorer - to switch view (Extra large icons/Large icons/Medium icons accordingly). After the lock/unlock switch view starts working again.  Seems like File Explorer overrides language bar hotkeys after the unlocking.  How can I disable this functionality? Completely disabling Ctrl+Shift+number functionality in File Explorer will do, however I can't find anywhere on the internet how to do it.  Any ideas or help appreciated!
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I accidentally installed some USB drivers to my Windows 7 system, they were the wrong ones and now my keyboard and mouse won't work. A system restore would get rid of them, but obviously I can't control my computer to make that happen.  Keyboard and mouse still work before windows has loaded, in the BIOS and boot system, so can I do anything from there? I've already tried booting into another OS, accessing my windows filesystem and deleting the Program Files entry, but it didnt work so they must go deeper than that. Or could i launch it from a remote machine? I've got some VNC server insalled so if i could get that running that could work.
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I would like to know how to permanently lock the "Fn" key down so it is active on my keyboard. I'm running and HP G72. I could not figure out the Key Code using any macro software.  I want the Fn key to be inverted... so that it is ON all the time, and pressing and holding it turns off temporarily.  The reason is that the stupid multimedia controls now have priority on the F1 - F12 keys. Pressing them activates some multimedia function. I want to use them as default F-keys, namely F5 for refresh, but I have to manually press and hold Fn + F5 which is a pain.  I want it to be enabled in all of windows so its the flip of how it behaves normally. Any help is appreciated, I spend like 3 hours trying to figure it out already... thanks!