Some users of PCs and laptops, in one of the most common days, may be faced with the fact that their keyboard has stopped working. Of course, in such a situation, initially there is a certain bewilderment of everything that is happening, as suddenly the keyboard stopped working in Windows 10, which literally half an hour ago, fully functioning. All sorts of attempts to fix everything begin, which, as is often the case, do not lead to anything sensible. It is for this reason that we decided to provide you with this article, where there is information, which certainly will be useful to most of you.
How to activate "On-Screen Keyboard" in Windows 10?
There are situations when a PC user simply does not have the ability to enter a password on the "OS Logon Screen", in which case, it is best to use the so-called "On-Screen Keyboard", which can become active and rendered if you click the mouse cursor on the button "Special (located in the lower right corner of the monitor screen) and already there, click on the item "On-Screen Keyboard".
In this situation, the problems and the functioning of the mouse are not rare, in this case, in order to try to return it to the working state, you will have to use the "On" / "Off" button, which is located either on the system unit or on the laptop. Press the button and hold it for a few seconds until the PC or laptop makes an "emergency shutdown" with a distinctive sound. After shutting down in this way, the mouse will have to start working the next time you start systems Windows 10.
The keyboard does not work in applications and on the screen for entering a password in Windows 10
There are situations when, for reasons unknown to the user, the keyboard refuses to work in applications and on the password entry screen, but when you run more frequently used programs, such as Notepad or Word, everything works fine. In addition, problems with a non-working keyboard can be traced even in the Edge browser and when using the search on the "Taskbar". In such a situation, you need to go to the Start menu, where you should go to the Task Manager, and from there, open the Details tab and actually here, check whether or not the process is "ctfmon.exe".
If you checked everything a couple of times and did not notice that the ctfmon.exe process is active, then in this case, you will need to perform the following action:
- Using the "hot keys" of Win + R, start the "Run" window and enter "ctfmon.exe" in its search line, after which you can start the search.
- We use autoloading to add "ctfmon.exe" to it and this is done using the "hot keys" of Win + R, after which, we write regedit on the search string and start the search.
- In the end, you are in the "Registry Editor", where only the path of the following character should be of interest to you: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run \", where the desired section is "Run". Accordingly, in the Run section, you will have to create a parameter that will be referred to as "ctfmon", and its value should look like "C: \ Windows \ System32 \ ctfmon.exe".
Further, it will be necessary to reboot the system in order that all the changes made to it become active. Now, you can check if there is an error or the keyboard still started working.
The keyboard in Windows 10 starts to work only reboot the OS
It happens that the keyboard does not work in Windows 10, but it's only necessary to reboot the system and it immediately becomes fully functional. Of course, on the one hand, there is nothing to worry about, but on the other hand, there's nothing good here. But in any case, with this problem you need to do something and we suggest using the following settings of the system:
- It is necessary to go to the OS settings and there, disable the item responsible for the "Quick start of Windows 10", after which, just restart the computer.
- Install system drivers by yourself. Here you need to understand that, ideally, you need to remove the old drivers, and in their place, you just need to install new drivers and you need to do this manually, and not use the OS features or various applications created for these purposes.
Additional ways to make the keyboard work
- Turn to the "Task Scheduler" with the combination of "hot keys" Win + R, when the "Run" window opens, write the command "taskschd.msc" in the search box, now go to the "Task Scheduler Library", then go to the section with the name "Microsoft", select "Windows" and at the end, go to "TextServicesFramework". Here, it's worth making sure that the task called "MsCtfMonitor" is active. If necessary, this task can be "performed" by clicking on it with the PCM and selecting the "Run" item.
- There are situations when the antivirus itself (in particular Kaspersky) becomes the cause of problems due to the fact that it too zealously protects the user and thereby blocks the use of the keyboard. Therefore, we go into the settings of the antivirus and disable the option there, which is responsible for the possibility of "Safe keyboard input".
- It happens that when you log in, you need to enter a password, and the password contains numbers and the user trying to enter them, can not do it. In this case, you should pay attention to the "Num Lock" button, which should be turned off. Immediately pay attention to the buttons "ScrLk" and "Scroll Lock", because they also need to be kept off. We draw your attention that for some laptops, to turn off the above buttons, it is also necessary to hold down the "Fn" key.
- We go to the "Device Manager" and delete the keyboard there. The keyboard can often be found in sections with loud names "Keyboards" or in "HID devices". After deleting, go to the menu where we click on the "Action", after which, select "Update Hardware Configuration".
- If you have enough skill to work with the computer and its settings, then you can try to reset the BIOS.
- In some situations, the device is de-energized. It is important to understand that the device should not simply be turned off and then disconnected from the outlet, but also to remove the battery from it, if any.
- Not often, but sometimes sometimes, the "Troubleshoot Windows 10" option helps, where you can select "Keyboard" and "Hardware and devices", after which you need to follow system prompts.
We hope that although one of the above methods was useful to you, as in this article, we tried to collect as much useful information as possible, which certainly can help most users who are faced with the fact that they do not have a keyboard.
