Disable and enable keyboard & mouse from batfiles?

I'v worked it out (a bit more).

To find out what your mouses ID is you must do this:

Code:

devcon find * > C:\devcon.txt

This will output the console in to devcon.txt directly in C:\. Open that in your favorit text editor and search for the word mouse. This will give your your mouses ID (mine is HID\VID_046D&PID_C01D\6&14C4188C&0&0000). Now, you would have thought that you would simply do

Code:

devcon disable HID\VID_046D&PID_C01D\6&14C4188C&0&0000

wouldn't you? But of course nothing is ever that simple with windows. All thoughs &s in the devices ID makes the console think you want to execute another command, which of course we don't want to do, and putting "" around the ID doesn't help either becasue then it can't find the ID.

So, what must be done now is to take all ID of the mouse but stop befor the first & (in my case this is HID\VID_046D) and then do:

Code:

devcon fine <ID of mouse befor the first &>*

(In my case that would be HID\VID_046D*) Now, if only the mouse is listed that means it is safe to disable in this fashin.

Now we are going to disable the device like so:

Code:

devcon disable <ID of mouse befor the first &>*

(In my case that would be HID\VID_046D*) You should now find your mouse has stopped working. Just run

Code:

devcon enable <ID of mouse befor the first &>*

to enable it again. Then do this all again for the keyboard, but beware, there might be more then one device with the word keyboard in it's name, be sure you device is called "Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard" or some thing similare.
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Hi Sparda,

Thanks for all of the instructions - I'll give it a try.

Cheers

Tony
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Hi Sparda,

It's not quite working yet.

I downloaded devcon (looks like a powerful tool) and ran

devcon find * > C:\devcon.txt

The resulting text file only had one entry each for keyboard and mouse

ACPI\PNP0F13\4&1B5998F7&0 : PS/2 Compatible Mouse
ACPI\PNP0303\4&1B5998F7&0 : Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard

However when I try to list just the mouse it finds nothing

devcon fine <ID of mouse before the first &>* (presumably you meant find not fine)

devcon find ACPI\PNP0F13\4* > c:\mouseID.txt

A similar thing happens when I try to find the keyboard.

I'm a bit reluctant to go on to the next stage of trying to disable the mouse or keyboard if it's not finding them correctly.

Any suggestions?

Also, what happens when I reboot from a system where the mouse and/or the keyboard are disabled?
Do they automatically reenable on a reboot or will the rebooted system still have them disabled.
My concern is that the computer will lock up for some reason, the enable command won't be issued and it will be difficult to get back into the system.

Cheers

Tony
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Try

Code:

devcon find *ACPI\PNP0F13\4*

insted...

Just to clear a few things up, if the keyboard and mouse are disable and some one forcifvly restarts the computer there is no way to renable them short of getting another USB keyboard and pluging it in. This could of course be avoided by having a script that runs on startup that enables the keyboard and mouse (reguradless of there last state)
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Hello again,

I tried your suggestion

C:\devcon\devcon find *ACPI\PNP0F13\4* > c:\devcon\mouse.txt

but the resulting text file only contains the following:

No matching devices found.
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try

Code:

devcon find ACPI*

and see what the result is...
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Hi again

The result was

ACPI\FIXEDBUTTON\2&DABA3FF&0 : ACPI Fixed Feature Button
ACPI\GENUINEINTEL_-_X86_FAMILY_15_MODEL_3\_0 : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
ACPI\GENUINEINTEL_-_X86_FAMILY_15_MODEL_3\_1 : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
ACPI\PNP0000\4&1B5998F7&0 : Programmable interrupt controller
ACPI\PNP0100\4&1B5998F7&0 : System timer
ACPI\PNP0200\4&1B5998F7&0 : Direct memory access controller
ACPI\PNP0303\4&1B5998F7&0 : Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
ACPI\PNP0401\4&1B5998F7&0 : ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
ACPI\PNP0501\1 : Communications Port (COM1)
ACPI\PNP0700\4&1B5998F7&0 : Standard floppy disk controller
ACPI\PNP0800\4&1B5998F7&0 : System speaker
ACPI\PNP0A03\2&DABA3FF&0 : PCI bus
ACPI\PNP0B00\4&1B5998F7&0 : System CMOS/real time clock
ACPI\PNP0C01\2&DABA3FF&0 : System board
ACPI\PNP0C02\1 : Motherboard resources
ACPI\PNP0C02\3 : Motherboard resources
ACPI\PNP0C02\4 : Motherboard resources
ACPI\PNP0C02\5 : Motherboard resources
ACPI\PNP0C04\4&1B5998F7&0 : Numeric data processor
ACPI\PNP0C0C\2&DABA3FF&0 : ACPI Power Button
ACPI\PNP0F13\4&1B5998F7&0 : PS/2 Compatible Mouse
ACPI\PNPB02F\4&1B5998F7&0 : Standard Game Port
ACPI_HAL\PNP0C08\0 : Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
ROOT\ACPI_HAL\0000 : ACPI Multiprocessor PC
24 matching device(s) found.
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ok based on thoughs results

Code:

devcon find *PNP0F13*

should only return the mouse. If so, continue...
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