how to disable keyboard on laptop windows 11

how to disable keyboard on laptop windows 11

0:00 Disable Keyboard on Laptop Intro 0:39 Uninstall Keyboard Driver 1:29 Disable PS/2 port service

Disable command: sc config i8042prt start= disabled

Enable command: sc config i8042prt start= auto

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Some people prefer to use external keyboards on laptops. You can’t really do anything about the physical built-in keyboard but there is an easy way to disable your laptop keyboard or keyboards in general. In this short tutorial, I’ll show you how to do this in Windows 11 or older versions of Windows.

The easiest way to disable the laptop keyboard is by uninstalling the driver in the Windows Device Manager. The downside to this method is that Windows automatically reinstall the driver after reboot. So keep this in mind. In the second method, I’ll show you how to stop this.

#1 Uninstall Keyboard Driver

Click on the Windows search icon and type in Device Manager. In Device Manager, expand the keyboards section. Doing so reveals all of the installed keyboard drivers. If you have a laptop, the driver that you want to uninstall probably has a name with standard or HID in it.

Right-click on it and select Uninstall device.

You get a warning asking whether you are sure to uninstall the device. Click on Uninstall to continue. This is all you need to do for the first method.

You can still use your external keyboard. When you want to enable your laptop keyboard, reboot your PC and the Keyboard driver is installed once more. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work on every version of Windows. If this is the case, continue to the next method.

#2 Disable PS/2 port service to Disable Keyboard

In the second method, we permanently disable the laptop keyboard in Windows 11. There is a command to reverse this, but still, you should only use this method if you are sure that you want to disable it.

Click on the Windows search icon and type in cmd. Right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.

We are going to disable the PS/2 port service, which is responsible for the laptop keyboard. You can do this by entering the following command:

sc config i8042prt start= disabled

After entering, you should see the message SUCCESS. On the next reboot, your laptop keyboard is disabled.

Should you want to enable it once more, make sure that you have an external keyboard connected to the laptop. Again, you need to enter a command in CMD:

sc config i8042prt start= auto

On the next reboot, the laptop keyboard works as before.

This concludes our tutorial on how to disable the laptop keyboard on Windows 11. I'm inspired by creators as TechGumbo and Tech Insider.

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