2 keyboards 1 PC

[punky]

You can disable the keyboard in Device Manager (CP, System, Hardware, Device Manager, Keyboard) can't you?

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by Alien

Bit of an odd career choice then.

Originally Posted by Zeph

Yeah I was just thinking that myself

Yeah, well she just sees it as a job, goes in, programs, goes home - and has no interest in anything like that when she leaves?

Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo

Have you got any that you can recommend (educational games)

He's quite partial to Doom (joke)
I'm not sure whether recommendations are any good - we've got him some Bob the Builder one, some Thomas the Tank engine ones and some Noddy ones - becasue these are the things that he likes, so it's easier to engage him with those ? - best advice I can see is try and get a game that involves a character that your child(ren) like?

[Gareth]

Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo

Have you got any that you can recommend (educational games)

I can highly recommend this one...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hasbro-Plays.../dp/B00004UA6R



The cash register sits on top of the keyboard and clips into place, and then the child uses the big buttons, barcode reader thingy, credit card swipey thingy, cash drawer, etc... The games themselves are of a good quality and are fun to play.

Have a look on ebay for them, as they're sometimes on there and they go for a lot less than the price on Amazon. I think we still have ours in the attic... might try and dig it out one day.

Playskool also do some other ones of a similar nature... a kitchen for girls and a Tonka one for boys - so you can instill some political uncorrectness in them from a young age

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo

Have you got any that you can recommend (educational games)

The playhouse disney site is very good, structured, regular updates and a subsite where you can see what different activites your child is doing on the computer.
Don't know if it is accessible from the UK but over here it is a $50 a year subscription which is worth the money IMHO.
http://playhouse.go.com/v1/marketing/
And it has Agnes DiPesto (well Allyce Beasley) doing the voiceovers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyce_Beasley

[Mr_love_monkey]

So the long and the short of it is, that this isn't possible without a big chunky usb box - oh well

so your case does not have front usb? you can get extensions which will sit from the back of your pc and just leave a cable so in short no you dont need a big clunky box you either plug the keyboard into a front port or plug it into an extension and bite the bullet and remove the young ones keyboard when not needed this to me is hardly a hardship and your just trying to make life difficult for yourself

[TheNorm]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

... isn't possible without a big chunky usb box - oh well

They do make small dainty ones, as Bob explains: http://www.usbswitch.com/index.html

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Gavin

You can disable the keyboard in Device Manager (CP, System, Hardware, Device Manager, Keyboard) can't you?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272

You have to find the ID of the device but then you can enable disable it from the command line...

Back before bootcamp properly supported macbooks I used this to switch the speakers off when I put headphones in my macbook (you used to have to change a reg entry and disable/re-enable the soundboard )

Anyway that got pretty tedious pretty quickly so I wrote a couple cmd scripts to enable/disable the device and load the appropriate .reg file.

Should be easy enough to put the command in a script then shortcut it to an icon on the desktop to run it.

Could have a couple icons, Keyboard ON, Keyboard OFF each to pass the appropriate command to devcon to enable/disable it