Saturday, 27 August 2016

Fixing an odd Windows on-screen keyboard problem

In Windows 10, every time I open anything which requires admin access (e.g. cmd -> run as administrator), the on-screen keyboard would pop up after clicking OK.

Settings -> Ease of Access -> Keyboard -> Turns on the On-Screen Keyboard was Off as expected, but it'd still happen.

I found that the "fix" was under:

Control Panel -> Ease of Access Center -> Change sign-in settings

where somehow I still had "Type without the keyboard (On-Screen Keyboard) ticked under "After sign-in".

Note that there is also a tick-box under:

Control Panel -> Ease of Access Center -> Use the computer without a mouse or keyboard

which can also cause problems.

Finally it's gone!