Topic: Accidentally disabled mouse and keyboard isn't working (Read 1147 times)

Audioworm333 · « **on:** March 23, 2015, 04:41:42 pm »

So today my old, beat-up keyboard was discarded in favor of a new one, plus another one for when this one inevitably gives up the ghost. I've gotten used to the ritual of having to mess with the drivers whenever I get a new keyboard/whatever before it finally works, so I was doing that. However, in a klutzy move I managed to accidentally disable my mouse drivers, and my keyboard still wasn't working, and since I couldn't use either one of those I couldn't even move to the on-screen keyboard. I tried rebooting, but now I'm just stuck in the start-up screen.

What should I do? Is there anything that can be done now? Did I just permanently fuck up my ability to use my computer with one dumb mistake?

martinuzz · « **Reply #1 on:** March 23, 2015, 06:20:28 pm »

worst case, you'll have to reinstall windows with a boot disk. Should come with drivers that work with at least the basic plug and play keyboards.

monkey · « **Reply #2 on:** March 23, 2015, 10:28:28 pm »

Did you try Safe Mode ?
(press F8 before the Windows logo appears)

gimlet · « **Reply #3 on:** March 24, 2015, 12:15:33 am »

Borrow a usb mouse or keyboard from a friend, use it long enough to restore stuff?

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