This guide will feature easy ways to disable your keyboard either temporarily or permanently, depending on your needs.ĭisabling your keyboard will be different depending on your OS as well. We won’t have you do any coding or command firing in this guide. That’s okay! Don’t worry, it’s intimidating to most people. Other online guides go into real coding depth to disable your keyboard and that may be something that is a little intimidating to you. Note: HP users have experienced a blue screen of death when using this method. Windows will find the proper driver from your laptop’s manufacturer and install it, reenabling your laptop’s keyboard after restart. If you want to revert back to your laptop’s keyboard, follow steps 1-6 but instead of selecting ‘Browse my computer for driver software’, select ‘Search automatically for driver software’. This method also disables your laptop’s trackpad which is why you will also need an external mouse alongside your external keyboard. Windows will see that there is a driver there and pass over it, assuming it is the correct driver.

This is because you have essentially installed a wrong driver in place of the correct one. Unlike Method 1, a restart will not reenable your laptop’s keyboard. Step 12: When it has installed, select ‘Close’ Step 11: A warning will appear, select ‘Yes’

Dell laptop keyboard shortcuts