Re: I think we are getting somewhere

From: Licensed to Quill (fountainpen_at_amexol.net)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 08:53:22 -0500

I agree your point in general terms but all the info I needed to put in was
put in to the original post which was about how to manually restore earlier
registries in XP Pro in the event that System Restore was inoperative (which
apparenlty is often the case). No one knew, possibly because no one ANYWHERE
knows how to do this and MS is keeping it a complete mystery. (I ashed this
on MS help_and_suipport but no one at MS would let on how this was done)

We then moved on to trying to fix the problem by identifying it. But I can't
ask Toshiba because they have no technical support any more, merely
telephonists in India who pretend to listen carefully, pretend to think
carefully, ask you to wait while they "double check" that (Indistry-Speak
for they are just completely untrained telephonists who dont know ANY
answers but Toshiba don't want you to know this) and then tell everyone to
reinstall their Operating Systems from recovery discs. Added to that was the
fact that my computer seems to have had an upgrade from XP home to XP Pro at
some stage which would have left TOshiba completely baffled and telling me
to restore the Home OS. Following which advice would probably leave me
without any software at all.

Incidentally I do TEND to think that someone who had tried system restore
and lots of messages on google has also probalby also been through quite a
bit of self-hslp of the "delete keyboard from Dev Man if it isnt working and
reinstall" type but I agree, there are people who may not have put the
correct info in. (the DUH was because I cant see anyone knowing how to post
on a newsgroup but not knowing to call the name and 800 number engraved all
over their computers for assistance with those computers)

Present position is that I have done all required and reinstalled Easy
Button (which was one of the things I was told to do to get rid of the error
message) through its set up program AND reinstalled a standard PS2 keyboard
through device manager and there are still no exclamation marks but the
keyboard STILL isn't working

BTW Thanks you JAX for pointing me to
http://www.input-drivers.com/companies/1066.htm which doesn't identify any
particular keyboard driver for XP (or XP Pro) for my computer but which may
well be the only place I might find the driver I need. (Driverguide itself
may also be of assistance). Sorry for the Duh, - you weren't to know that
Toshiba dont have any TS, it's just that the manufacturer is always the
FIRST place to turn whenever anyone has a problem with anything (computers,
cars, washing machines etc), so your post mutually identified me as a
complete idiot by pretending that I might not have done this yet. I don't
necessarily identify not having a keyboard-type input device as
insignificant?

Licensed to Quill
TEXT OF ADVICE MESSAGE ON THIS ERROR MESSAGE FROM AE-CERTIFIED MS MVP
FOLLOWS (admittedly dated pre-SP2)
Hi Royce, "\\\DRI KBFiltr : The system cannot find the file specified" HP?
If so...try this fix by Troy: http://tinyurl.com/1uk0 If Toshiba Satellite
1905-S277:

"DRI KBFiltr : The system cannot find the file specified":

Check Add or Remove for a program called Easy Button and remove it.

If the above doesn't help: Go to Start/Run/Regedit and remove these two
keys:

HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt

HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Kbdclass

-- Happy New Year, Kelly MS-MVP Win98/XP-Shell/User [AE-Windows XP]
Troubleshooting Windows XP http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
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