Perhaps it would be most helpful to everyone nquiring about deselecting or
turning off or preventing the on-screen keyboard from autoloading at startup
of the pc, to say after you have put in the instructions to "uncheck the box"
and click apply, suggest the user to reboot the pc as the changes will not
take affect until after a reboot occurs. Instead, I learned it by accident.
"too_tall" wrote:
> Who's help was invaluable???
>
> I have read all messages in here regarding on-screen keyboard and still have
> not found the instructions to remove it or stop it from autoloading at
> startup. I think instead of giving answers without researching whether they
> actually work or not and replying with the posts is non-productive and very,
> very frustrating to the individual who is trying to stop the features from
> auto-loading.
>
> I use Windows Vista Home Basic Edition. I have two features that autoload
> on startup that I would like to keep from occurring: 1) on-screen keyboard,
> and, 2) magnifier.
>
> I have followed all instructions given to either Press Windows Key+U >
> Select On Screen Keyboard > Uncheck "Start automatically when
> > i log in" > OK submitted by Ayush" <"ayushmaan.j[aatt]gmail.com from another posting list of messages and "You can prevent the Ease of Access On-Screen Keyboard from automatically
> starting when you load Windows by clearing the "Use On-Screen Keyboard"
> checkbox on the "Use the computer without a mouse or keyboard" page in the
> Ease of Access Center. (Open the Control Panel, click Ease of Access, click
> Ease of Access Center, and then click Use the computer without a mouse or
> keyboard.)" submitted by Mark Carpenter [MSFT]. Sadly both features are
> still popping up at startup of the computer regardless of whose instructions
> I followed.
>
> For me, I have no fancy games or fancy programs loaded other than the
> standard issue programs which come with the Microsoft Windows Vista Home
> Basic Edition and Microsoft Suite. So, there should be no reason for this
> continued irritant occurring.
>
> Now, if someone would kindly research how to prevent these two features -
> on-screen keyboard and magnifier from autoloading on startup with my ops
> system instead of merely putting something they think will prevent it, I and
> the many others like me who have taken the time to blog out there concerns
> here would be might greatful. As it stands now though, the two
> afore-mentioned advisings do not prevent these two features from autoloading
> on startup on this pc.
>
>
> "TCB" wrote:
>
> >
> > Mark Carpenter--"THANK YOU! I LOVE YOU!"
> >
> > I have a new HP Computer and am new to Vista Premium. I returned from
> > a one week vacation and my wireless keyboard did not work. After 2
> > hours on the phone with HP (with their solution of replacing my
> > keyboard), I clicked my wireless mouse on the start icon and discovered
> > the on-screen keyboard. It was a mixed blessing: I used the on-screen
> > keyboard to contact the HP online chat tech and she quickly resolved
> > the problem with the wireless keyboard, but the on-screen keyboard
> > would not go away. I spent a few hours on line with another HP
> > tech---who wanted me to open the utility manager--but I was unable to
> > find (and still am unable to find the utility manager). His next
> > suggestion was to open the msconfig , go to startup and uncheck all
> > programs except RECGUARD and KBD. I never found the RECGUARD and was
> > both nervous and reluctant to follow his instructions---so I ended the
> > "chat." Tonight I have spent 3 hours on the Microsoft Help and Support
> > Page and only found how to enable the keyboard----and in desperation
> > went to google "disable vista on-screen keyboard" and the rest is
> > history. I thought the solution would be simple---and turns out I was
> > right. YOUR HELP WAS INVALUABLE!!! I shudder to think what would have
> > happened if I followed the HP online chat tech support. By the way, the
> > Microsoft support page does not recognize my Product ID----how do I
> > activate the Vista Premium in my new HP Computer? I used the product
> > ID from the control panel settings.
> >
> > Thank You,
> > Ms TCB
> >
> >
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