Disable Keyboard with Keyboard Shortcut in Windows

This updated guide examines Disable Keyboard with Keyboard Shortcut in Windows and organizes the essential facts, background, and practical takeaways in clear American English.

When you open Keyboard Locker, you will see a small keyboard icon appear in your system tray.

To lock the keyboard, press Ctrl + Alt + L.

This icon in the system tray changes to indicate that the keyboard is locked. Most of the data entered from the keyboard is now disabled, including most special keys in the multimedia keyboard and the Caplock, Numlock keys. There are a few key combinations that will still work, like Ctrl + Alt + Delete and Win + L to lock your computer but it's not easy for kids to do it. When you want to enable the keyboard, simply type in the word " unlock ".

By default, popup notifications seen in the image above do not appear - only when the system tray icon changes. If you want to enable this message, right-click the system tray icon and click " Show tray notifications ".

If you don't like this message but forget the keyboard shortcut or the typing command, you can move the mouse over the system tray icon and a popup window will appear with the instructions provided.

Keyboard Locker will not have any adverse effects on your computer if you leave it at all times, but if you want to turn it off, right-click on the icon in the system tray and then press " Exit ".

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Start Keyboard Locker when Windows starts If you want Keyboard Locker to start automatically when you start your computer, you can create a shortcut to Keyboard Locker in your startup folder. To do this, click on the Start button, then on All Programs . You can see a folder called Startup .

Right-click on this folder and click Explore

A window will be opened. There may already be a few shortcuts in it (if there are programs here that you do not want to start with Windows, you can delete them here). In our case, right-click an empty area of the window and select New > Shortcut .

Click the Browse. button and locate where you save Keyboard Locker.

The Path section will be filled. Click Next

Put a name for this shortcut if you like, then click Finish .

You should now see a Keyboard Locker shortcut in the startup folder. From now on, Keyboard Locker will start with Windows.

If you want to stop Keyboard Locker from running with Windows, simply delete it from the Startup folder.