Re: Detect mouse/keyboard.

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From: Papparotti (Papparotti_at_o2.ie)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:17:38 +0100

Rob wrote:
> Is there any way (WITHOUT REBOOTING) that you can tell
> Windows 2000 to re-detect your PS/2 keyboard & mouse?
>
> I use a KVM switch on a few servers. When my server
> rebooted, the keyboard&mouse were set to another machine.
> So it works fine except that the key&mouse don't respond.
>
> I tried to detect new hardware but that didn't work.
>
> Any ideas?
> thanks.
> Bob Z
>

Hi Rob

how about:

<WinKey>+<Pause/Break> => Hardware tab => Device Manager => Scan for
hardware changes

Hope this helps...

Andre

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