Re: Severe Troll alert
From: Vanguard (no_email)
Date: 11/07/04
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Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:19:47 -0600
"Licensed to Quill" <fountainpen@amexol.net> wrote in message
news:eWm3AEOxEHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> DUHHHHHH
>
>
> "JAX" <slipslide@pop.not> wrote in message
> news:%238U%23a%23HxEHA.392@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> "(All I actually need is the Toshiba Statellite keyboard driver for
> Windows
>> XP Pro)"
>>
>> In that case, download it from Toshiba!
>>
>> JAX
>>
>> "Licensed to Quill" <fountainpen@amexol.net> wrote in message
>> news:%23IxErmHxEHA.3096@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> > It IS curious isnt it that everyone thinks that all previous
>> > registries
>> > have
>> > suddenly become corrupt in some way?? I agree no one has found a
>> > method
> of
>> > manually restoring prior registries but there must be some way of
>> > doing
>> > it:
>> > It is probably just the system restore program wihch is corrupted
>> > as
>> > opposed
>> > to every single one of the registry files themselves?
>> >
>> > (All I actually need is the Toshiba Statellite keyboard driver for
> Windows
>> > XP Pro)
>> >
>> > "Shenan Stanley" <news_helper@hushmail.com> wrote in message
>> > news:uVOWJtFxEHA.1192@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> >> Licensed to Quill wrote:
>> >> > I found over 16,000 references by googling system restore but
>> >> > none
>> >> > told me what to do when it reports numerous restore points
>> >> > available
>> >> > but none actually complete the restore.
>> >> >
>> >> > I had a very slightly annoying error message after installation
>> >> > of
> SP2
>> >> > "DRI_KBFiltr : The system cannot find the file specified"
>> >> >
>> >> > I was told to delete some keys from the registry and when I did,
>> >> > the
>> >> > whole keyboard stopped working. It seems to be internal to the
>> >> > Satellite computer and the generic PS2 drivers wont work on it.
>> >> > TOshiba doesnt seem to provide technical support for this.
>> >> >
>> >> > I am NOT running out of space on the drive at all. Is there a
>> >> > way of
>> >> > identifying an earlier-dated restry and restoring it if System
> Restore
>> >> > doesnt complete? Microsoft were baffled and apparently havent
>> >> > come
>> >> > across this problem with SP2.
>> >>
>> >> It's actually quite common for Restore Points to go "bad"..
>> >> (Corruption.)
>> >> As far as I have seen there is NO correction for this. You have
>> >> to
> lose
>> > the
>> >> restore points and start anew.
>> >>
>> >> (This, of course, will erase any previous restore point you have.)
>> >>
>> >> Turn off System Restore.
>> >> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310405
>> >>
>> >> Reboot.
>> >>
>> >> Turn on System Restore.
>> >> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310405
>> >>
>> >> Make a Manual Restoration Point.
>> >> http://snipurl.com/68nx
>> >>
>> >> Also, you should look into backing up your valuable files and
>> >> folders.
>> >> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308422
>> >>
>> >> If anyone knows different - I'll be glad to add it to my arsenal.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> <- Shenan ->
>> >> --
>> >> The information is provided "as is", it is suggested you research
>> >> for
>> >> yourself before you take any advice - you are the one ultimately
>> >> responsible for your actions/problems/solutions. Know what you
>> >> are
>> >> getting into before you jump in with both feet.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
Since it sounds like you still have the mouse to use, why not
right-click on My Computer and select Manage (or start the Device
Manager in Control Panel), delete the keyboard device, and reboot? The
keyboard should be detected and reinstalled through hardware detection
during Windows startup. If that doesn't work, delete the keyboard
device and pick a generic one to see if the keyboard starts working
again. Once you get the keyboard working with a standard driver, then
go to Toshiba's web site to download their latest driver for it, if they
provide one. Maybe they just rely on the standard keyboard driver
embedded in Windows.
When you say, "DUHHHH", that implies you looked but there was no
keyboard driver for your model of their product. Is that actually true,
have you yet bothered to even look? It would take us as long as it
would take you to go look on their web site for a driver. Actually it
would take us longer because we would have to make many guesses at which
model you have within the Satellite family and look at many tech
articles to get a consensus of what Toshiba does for drivers. You never
told us the model you have. You should know what Satellite model you
have and so you can do the search yourself (start at
http://snipurl.com/agnz).
"I was told to delete some keys from the registry ...". Who told you
this? Did they not mention to first export the keys so you could
restore them in case their deletion caused problems? Maybe that person
assumed you knew how to use the registry editor and would backup what
you were going to delete.
"Toshiba doesn't seem to provide technical support for this." So what
did they say when you called them?
DRI_KBFiltr. That doesn't look like a keyboard driver file to me,
especially with the "filter" string in its name. It looks more like
some additional utility that probably chained itself into the keyboard
driver. I also have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed. My keyboard
driver is the generic "Easy Internet Keyboard" (probably because Windows
detected volume, mute, and home page keys). My keyboard is connected to
the PS/2 keyboard connector on the backpanel. A search on my computer
does not turn up this filename. What happens when you run msconfig.exe
to disable all startup programs and reboot? What happens if you reboot
into Safe mode?
If you cannot get the system working again as is, then you might end up
have to perform an in-place upgrade that steps atop your current install
(and then reapply SP-2); see http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315341,
method 2, Repair.
A Google search on "DRI_KBFiltr" turned up 94 matches, and the first one
that was shown in the match list might help you
(http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBM/tip6200/rh6277.htm). A Google Groups search
on "DRV_Filtr" (quoted to ensure the underscore got included) turned up
391 matches. I have no idea on what you searched when using Google or
Google Groups. You said you got 16,000 matches. That's 33 times the
total matches that I got in Google and Google Groups. By the
description in the JSIINC article, it sure looks like I was on the money
that you have something MORE installed to provide additional features
for your keyboard than just the standard keyboard driver. It seems
weird that Toshiba would be using a 3rd party keyboard utility to get
full support for their embedded keyboard - unless, of course, it was
something you installed yourself.
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