How to turn off Smart Card reader

[Bruce Sanderson]

I have an Acer Travlemate C300 (converitble) that has a built in Smart Card
reader, but I don't have any smart cards to use with it.

I keep getting prompts and warnings about inserting a smart card or that the
smart card can not be read; usually, I have click OK or whatever to clear
the dialog box and get on with what I'm doing.

How does one convince Vista to just ignore the smart card reader so these
prompts and warnings will not appear?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

You could disable it in Device Manager, but they don't normally ask for
cards... In fact I don't think I've had either my desktop or the test
platform or my notebooks asking for them.

 

[BobS]

How about turning off the Smart Card Service. Start > Search > Type
"services.msc" (without the quotes) scroll down to Smart Card Service and
double click to get to Properties then select Disable. I think those are
correct but I'm on a WinXP right now so I can't verify.

That should do it.

Bob S.

 

[Bruce Sanderson]

Thanks Cari!

It's not so much a question of "asking" so much as "complaining" that the
Smart Card is invalid.

I fixed the issue by disabling the Smart Card in Device Manager as you
suggested.