'Switching Off' Keyboard

[Guest Blake Kaos]

Is there any way to 'switch off' a keyboard on Win XP Pro and conversely, is

there some way to switch it back on?

 

It seems my main administrator profile has either been corrupted or somehow

changed so that it does not recognise the keyboard. Other user profiles seem

to work normally on the same hardware.

 

I have tried to remove / reinstall the keyboard using Device Manager & tried

to use an USB keyboard - all to no avail. I tried to copy the profile (sans

the nti* files), but it is a pain to do so since I have to use the on-screen

virtual keyboard to do so. Anyway, I have not been successful in

transferring the old profile into a new profile.

 

Before I commit harakiri (a.k.a. reformatting the hard drive and

re-installing XP), I wonder whether there are any ways to

activate/de-activate the keyboard, which I may have overlooked.