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To disable or turn off desired key, click on “ Remap a key” button. Go to Keyboard Manager tab and make sure “ Enable Keyboard Manager” toggle button is set to ON. Now PowerToys program window will display on screen. If the main program window doesn’t appear on screen, double-click on its icon present in Taskbar notification area (system tray). To use Keyboard Manager, first of all download and install PowerToys utility from following topic:ĭownload Official Microsoft PowerToys for Windows 10Īfter downloading and installing, launch PowerToys program. Keyboard Manager can be used in Windows 10 operating system only. Keyboard Manager (KBM) is a part of Windows 10 PowerToys and comes bundled with PowerToys program. Once you turn off these keys, nothing will happen when you press those keys. In this article, we are going to share 2 free keyboard remapper software programs which will help you in disabling any desired key in your keyboard. In such situations, you may want to completely disable and turn off those keys so that even if you accidentally press them, nothing happens and you can continue working on your important work. For example, you press Caps Lock key frequently by mistake while typing in documents. Now you can rename the driver file, I renamed it to i8042prt.sys_bak.Many times you may find yourself in an annoying situation where you press one more keys accidentally while working on your computer.

In my case, I need to rename C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\i8042prt.sys, find the driver file, right click driver file, select Properties, select tab Security, click Advanced, click Change, type YOUR_USERNAME, click OK, click OK, click OK, right click driver file, select Properties, select tab Security, click Advanced, click Add, click Select a principal, type YOUR_USERNAME, click OK, checked Full control, click OK, click OK, click Yes, click OK.

Disabling laptop keyboard is also disabling laptop touchpad.Ģ. In my exploration, i8042prt.sys is my laptop keyboard's driver together with touchpad, kbdclass.sys is general keyboard driver and SynTP.sys is touchpad driver. Open Device Manager, right click Standard PS/2 Keyboard, select Properties, select tab Driver, click Driver Details and you can see a list of three Driver files.
