Utility to turn off keyboard

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Andy Mabbett

I seem to remember seeing a utility discussed, which would allow one to
turn off the keyboard (and reactivate it by a click of the mouse,
obviously) or cleaning or other purposes; it may even have DONE vice
versa, and allowed the keyboard to be used to turn Off the mouse, too.

Can anyone tell me what t was and where I can find it, please?
 
Andy said:
I seem to remember seeing a utility discussed, which would allow one
to turn off the keyboard (and reactivate it by a click of the mouse,
obviously) or cleaning or other purposes; it may even have DONE vice
versa, and allowed the keyboard to be used to turn Off the mouse, too.
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Just open a new maximized Notepad window and clean away...
 
I seem to remember seeing a utility discussed, which would allow one to
turn off the keyboard (and reactivate it by a click of the mouse,
obviously) or cleaning or other purposes; it may even have DONE vice
versa, and allowed the keyboard to be used to turn Off the mouse, too.
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The only free one I just remember doing both is the last free version
of Clean'n'Go by Simon Carter (Crystal Software). You can get it from
Simtel:

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/util/clengo24.zip

A free one for mouse-only cleaning is Squeaky Clean by Kiwi Enterprises:

http://www.kiwisyslog.com/products.htm#squeaky

HTH.
BeAr
 
B. R. 'BeAr' said:
The only free one I just remember doing both is the last free version
of Clean'n'Go by Simon Carter (Crystal Software).
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Thank you; I've fetched that, but it doesn't seem to want to install
(under Win XP SP2)
 
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:24:34 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote:

[Clean'n'Go]
Thank you; I've fetched that, but it doesn't seem to want to install
(under Win XP SP2)
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Hm. At least it *runs* on Win2kPro. You may try to extract the files
and run them directly. Assuming you have extracted the *.zip archive
by now, as a next step you have to extract the InstallShield archive.
You do this by running:

icomp -d -i _setup.1

Download icomp from SAC if you don't have it, yet:

ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/icomp.zip

The program itself is very simple. So it should run from XP. In fact -
it doesn't disable the keyboard at all. It just captures the input focus.
So you can 'type' whatever you want without harm. It does *not* disable
system shortcuts, though. That's why you can break out of the input
window by Ctrl+ESC (for instance).

Better in this means (but with a child-friendly/childish appearance)
is Maddie:

http://home.earthlink.net/~daliblume/Download/Maddie.html

Its purpose is to 'nurse' very small kids. It will be disabled by a
free-to-choose password.

The most common method for *really* disabling the keyboard:

rundll32 keyboard,disable

will not work on XP...

BeAr
 
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