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I am fairly new to the Acer Tablet and have a question. When I logon to my tablet, the "Welcome" screen comes on. Also, the pen keyboard comes on and stays on until the "Welcome" screen goes away. Is this normal? Its not really a big deal, I just wanted to know if there is a way to get rid of the keyboard? Thanks in advance.
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Posted - Feb 02 2005 : 2:32:15 PM
Hi dyowell,
What you have observed is indeed normal and not unique to the Acer Tablet. The TIP you see is there to allow users who are not using a fingerprint reader or who do not have a USB keyboard plugged in to enter their password or otherwise abort [change user, etc.] the login.
AFAIK, you can not get rid of that keyboard at logon, nor would you want to get rid of it. Personally, I leave my computer in slate mode during class, so I have to log in with the onscreen keyboard.
On my Compaq/HP TC1100 I had the same problem. I managed to get rid of it by the following:
1. Rename C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\kbdsur.exe to something else (I simply put an '_' before it, making it _kbdsur.exe).
2. Windows will complain that the version of a file does not match windows defaults or something like that (i cant remember exactly), specify that you dont care (I can't remember the exact command )
3. rename C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ink\keyboardsurrogate.exe to something else (again i used '_').
4. Open task manager and kill the process 'keyboardsurrogate.exe'..
5. Restart your computer... the login screen should have no keyboard anymore :)
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Posted - Feb 02 2005 : 2:24:51 PM
