I need an touch screen keyboard at login time for WinXP Pro

[Guest]

I am developing a touch screen program, running on WinXP Pro.
Everything is fine except for the initial Windows login, which requires a
keyboard.
I would like to have an touch screen keyboard, like the one on on WinXP
Tablet Edition. Does anyone know how I can do that?

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

First, the computer would have to have a touch screen.................

http://www.orin.com/touchscreen/softype_touch/index.htm

 

[paulmd]

I am developing a touch screen program, running on WinXP Pro.
Everything is fine except for the initial Windows login, which requires a
keyboard.
I would like to have an touch screen keyboard, like the one on on WinXP
Tablet Edition. Does anyone know how I can do that?

I take it the difficulty is getting the keyboard to show up before
login.

There is a hacking trick that works on win2k, that may be bent to a
purpose, that I've not tried on XP, so grain of salt time.

rename login.scr to login.bak
rename <yourkeyboard.exe> to login.scr

set the timeout for the screensavers as low as it will go.
the keyboard should appear shortly after login.

I'm pretty sure there's a better way to do this, though.

<reads Doug's link more carefully>

"SofType can be configured to launch at boot time and provide the
capability to log on to Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and
Windows XP. "

Nevermind.