onscreen keyboard pops up

[nanashi]

a friend of mine turned on the onscreen keyboard once and i went to the control panel and turned it off, but when i restart my computer it keeps turning back on. how do i stop this shenanigans?

 

[Jonathan_King]

Welcome!

I'm not sure how to do it from the options, but I know a system restore will take care of the issue.

 

[richc46]

Jon, must get up earlier than me, because so many times I follow his astute advice, which is always valid. I only want to add that in the future, you may want to give your friends the guest account. The beauty of the account is that the user has full use of the OS features, but cannot see your account and everything can be set back to normal after the user leaves. I do not want to tell you to give users an account with parental controls, because you may lose a friend, but PC would be perfect.

 

[Bill2]

Try turning off the Tablet PC feature in Windows. Go to Control Panel > Programs and Features – Turn Windows Features On or Off > uncheck Tablet PC Optional Components. Then reboot.

 

[motc7]

Try turning off the Tablet PC feature in Windows. Go to Control Panel > Programs and Features – Turn Windows Features On or Off > uncheck Tablet PC Optional Components. Then reboot.

or this would do just as good.

Try this:

1. Press the Windows key and the U at the same time.
2. This should bring up Utility Manager -- a little manager of accessibility tools. Narrator may or may not be automatically running. If it is, close it out (it's a nuisance unless you need it).
3. Select On-Screen Keyboard in the listbox.
4. The option Start Automatically When I Login should be checked. Uncheck it.
5.Click OK.
6. Log out and back in and see if that fixed the problem.

Good luck.

 

[texastoast]

Same Problem

My on screen keyboard is run on startup, and I don't want it to.

I have gone into the ease of access menu and made sure that the "Use On-Screen Keyboard" box is NOT checked.

I have run msconfig, nothing there runs osk.exe.

I have tried using the autoruns program that was suggest in the vista form, again nothing is found that runs osk.exe

I have confirmed that it is actually osk.exe running by going into the task manager when the On-Screen keyboard is running and found "osk.exe".

Any advise or suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks,

 

[Dwarf]

Do either of the following registry locations show osk.exe?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

 

[texastoast]

I checked both

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Neither contains an "osk.exe"

 

[FliGi7]

What about your startup folder?

C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

 

[texastoast]

What about your startup folder?

C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

There is no osk.exe in the startup folder.

 

[FliGi7]

Do a complete system search for "osk.exe". It should only find one in the Windows\System32 Folder. If you find more than one, that could be an issue.

 

[texastoast]

Do a complete system search for "osk.exe". It should only find one in the Windows\System32 Folder. If you find more than one, that could be an issue.

May have found the problem then. I found 4 results, one in each of the following folders:

C:\Windows\System32
C:\Windows\SysWOW64
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-osk_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_06b1c513739fb828
C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-osk_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_aa93298fbb4246f2

Do you believe I should simply remove the 3 osk.exe files that were not in System32 folder?

Thanks for the reply

 

[Dwarf]

I have the file in each of the folders you mention, so that cannot be the problem.

 

[FliGi7]

Sorry, I meant to type "Windows\ system folders", of which all those are, and not the singular System32 folder I listed. I was looking at something else and typing at the same time. Apologies.

The result I was checking for was it being located in a folder other than a system folder and not actually being the original osk.exe utility, rather an augmented and possibly infected file that also launches the real osk.exe.

At any rate, that doesn't seem to be the case. There has to be something we're missing here...

So, it pops up when Windows loads before you press anything. Then, once you close it, does it ever come back?

 

[texastoast]

Sorry, I meant to type "Windows\ system folders", of which all those are, and not the singular System32 folder I listed. I was looking at something else and typing at the same time. Apologies.

The result I was checking for was it being located in a folder other than a system folder and not actually being the original osk.exe utility, rather an augmented and possibly infected file that also launches the real osk.exe.

At any rate, that doesn't seem to be the case. There has to be something we're missing here...

So, it pops up when Windows loads before you press anything. Then, once you close it, does it ever come back?

No, it pops up after doing a fresh start (after shutdown or restart, *not* Log off and Log on). I close out of it, and it doesn't come back until the next start, unless I manually start it for some reason.

 

[texastoast]

If it's any help I believe it started after I told it to launch on startup once, a long time ago. I later turned it off, and it just stayed on. I didn't worry about it too much for a while thinking I would get around to figuring out why, and that's what I'm doing now.

 

[motc7]

If it's any help I believe it started after I told it to launch on startup once, a long time ago. I later turned it off, and it just stayed on. I didn't worry about it too much for a while thinking I would get around to figuring out why, and that's what I'm doing now.

If you have disabled it by going into the settings itself, and based on what you say here. do the following.

• goto start/in the search box type "msconfig" without quotes and hit enter.
• goto the startup tab and see if you can locate the keyboard in the startup tab. If you see it, uncheck it, and reboot.

 

[Joz]

"Go to control>ease of access>use the computer without a mouse or keyboard" and then uncheck "Use On-Screen Keyboard"