Removing the On-Screen keyboard from the Windows XP login screen

Tablet On-Screen Keyboard Frustrations

Today I came across a very interesting and frustrating situation with a Tablet PC running Windows XP Tablet editon. The issue specifically was related to the on-screen keyboard. The on-screen keyboard would show up each time I tried to log-in to the tablet using one of its user accounts. Although this is not a critical issue, it proved to be a nuisance. You will find that disabling the use of the on-screen keyboard in control panel or by pressing the “Windows Key”+U and un-checking the “start automatically when I log in” in “utility manager” will not remove it from the log-in screen. The quick fix for this issue is to type the following command into your run box, followed by a restart: regsvr32 /u “c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\ink\loginkey.dll”. This should take care of the issue permanetly and does no damage to your system files.

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