The screen-keyboard is a useful Windows feature on some occasions, e.g if you want to find out if it's the new keyboard's drivers that suddenly make your machine crash, or when you just need to unplug your keyboard for other reasons.
However it can happen that, if you turn on the screen-keyboard a few times on the login screen, it will stick to the desktop and open up every time you log in (be it a bug or adapted behavior). This is annoying if you just unplugged your keyboard to test stuff.
But fortunately we can turn that behavior off easily in the Control Panel:
Open it up and go to the Ease of Access section. Under Explore all settings, click on Use the computer without a mouse or keyboard:
Now uncheck the Use On-Screen Keyboard check-box under Type using a pointing device:
Click OK to save the settings and you're done!
This helped a lot, thanks.
Thanks a lot CSch for your solution 🙂
FANTASTIC ! Thank you this has been bugging me for a week. Problem solved.
It was a bit annoying to keep seeing the on-screen key board appearing repeatedly during start-up and there were few other sites that did not give me appropriate direction. However, the trick posted by CSch really worked. Thanks…
Thank you so much dear……
TY Bro did the same n it worked….that keyboard was really starting to annoy me :/
Thank you so much! But the on screen keyboard is still there whenever I on my laptop.
This article is very helpful,it work for me.
Thank you…Thank you. It suited its purpose at the time but I didn’t need it anymore. Easy instructions Thanks again,
This one way another better is to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and in left corner you will see easy of access then uncheck screen keyboard, apply changes and that’s all folks !! I think this is better and easy way.
The box wasn’t checkmarked. I also suspect that because it comes on everytime it’s booted, it won’t allow the wireless keyboard to work. I have already gone into configsys and removed it from the boot up menu but still can’t get the keyboard to work. I’ve tested it on a sceond profile on the computer so it’s not the keyboard.
That worked for me. Thanks!
Thank you. It was very useful.
Oh Thank u man… Ffeewww, I tried lots of thing s to delete it…
Sir,
I have tried as per instructions to disable the onscreen keyboard, but could not succeed. The problem still persists. Please advise some other solution to solve the problem.
Thanks
GGA
Even if the box is UNTICKED, everytime, the desktop kep board pops us at start up and when we use online malayalam key boards, which is annoying
Didn’t work for me. The “Use on-screen keyboard” boxed is already unchecked. Nonetheless the onscreen keyboard appears again and again in various places. Very annoying! I might need it if my keyboard broke down, but other than that I don’t want it popping up all the time. Any other suggestions?
This didn’t work for my computer I can’t get it to shut off