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I'd like to disable internal keyboard in my notebook so that I can place normal keyboard on top of it. I only need this for a short while, so I'd like to avoid uninstalling the keyboard and having to restart the system.

I can see no option to disable the device, although I thought I would:

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Tomáš Zato
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You can disable a device in Device Manager without uninstalling the drivers. Simply right-click the device > properties > disable.

I use this method on a number of laptops.

Some also come with touch-pad managers that have access to disable the keyboard when another is present. I do that with my mouse and touch-pad. Whenever I have my Bluetooth mouse plugged in the touch-pad gets disabled.

I use a Dell Latitude and have Windows 7 Enterprise. Your experience might depend on what device manufacture and what hardware configuration software is available. The Device Manager option is fairly straight forward.

Matthew Williams
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You could open it and unhook the ribbon cable then put the keyboard back in, that's what I did with my annoying touchpad, since even disabling that in the bios did not disable it's tap function in ubuntu.
Unless you have a laptop with warranty or 2 left hands, then don't

Agterbosch
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