redpointstar
Programmer
I am at my wits end on this one.
We were upgrading the keyboard on a system (with XP home) and, as part of the install for the new wireless keyboard, it had to uninstall the old one. Fine. After the reboot, though, the keyboard is dead. It works fine in the bios and to select the OS, etc, but once XP loads, no numlock lights and no response whatsoever.
I tried to back out to the old version by using the recovery console ( and, when I restore the original registry and boot, they keyboard and mouse work fine. But, when I take a recent recovery point (a few months back) and install that registry and boot, the keyboard and mouse are still dead.
I'll take any creative solutions people can come up with. I've tried a couple of remote control software package remote installs (remotelyanywhere), but they have failed installing. I've tried looking at registry settings to see what the issue is, but no luck there.
The machine *is* running once it boots - I can hit the file system over the network - but I just can't move the mouse or run any commands against it. If anyone has a creative way to let me run something without a keyboard or mouse on an XP Home computer, please let me know
We were upgrading the keyboard on a system (with XP home) and, as part of the install for the new wireless keyboard, it had to uninstall the old one. Fine. After the reboot, though, the keyboard is dead. It works fine in the bios and to select the OS, etc, but once XP loads, no numlock lights and no response whatsoever.
I tried to back out to the old version by using the recovery console ( and, when I restore the original registry and boot, they keyboard and mouse work fine. But, when I take a recent recovery point (a few months back) and install that registry and boot, the keyboard and mouse are still dead.
I'll take any creative solutions people can come up with. I've tried a couple of remote control software package remote installs (remotelyanywhere), but they have failed installing. I've tried looking at registry settings to see what the issue is, but no luck there.
The machine *is* running once it boots - I can hit the file system over the network - but I just can't move the mouse or run any commands against it. If anyone has a creative way to let me run something without a keyboard or mouse on an XP Home computer, please let me know