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OK well the issue I am having is the keyboard does not work and will disable to mouse if I try to use it. Just as clarification it is not the keyboard cause I am using it right now on my linux partition.

I was using autoruns to disable what I felt were unneeded services on my computer. I don't know what killed the keyboard but if I had to guess it was the vmware keyboard service.

What happens now is I boot up windows and try to log in. When it gets to the log in screen I can use my mouse to select my username and do everything else with it, but the second I touch anything on my keyboard it will lock up the mouse and the keyboard will not function. Windows is still running though and I can shut it down by pushing the power button just once. But I cannot login to windows because the keyboard won't work. I tried booting into safe mode to see if it fixes the problem and it doesn't allow the keyboard to function either and the keyboard still kills the mouse with it.

The same thing is happening to my laptop because I was using autoruns at the same time on it to being the idiot I am.

Ok to my question is, how can I fix it? I have tried seeing if I could use a boot disk to boot into windows and re-edit the startup services, but I do not know of a way to do this at all.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Foldor
 
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Welcome to TSG....

Did you write down the services that you stopped running on your computer so you know hat you stopped and how many of them at one time did you stop?
 
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No I have no idea, it was quite a few. It all started with me doing it on my laptop because I wanted to stop running the vmware and LANdesk stuff that my school put on. Then with my desktop at the same time I was disabling a ton of things including some vmware stuff. None of the stuff I was disabling were Microsoft and I was certain what they all were except for the vmware stuff, but I just figured since it was vmware it couldn't hurt.

edit: And yes looking back I realize how stupid this was.
 
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No I would not say stupid you just made a boo-boo and it shows that you are human just like the rest of us.

The proper way to get rid of the programs that your school put on is thru add/remove programs and if the items or programs are not listed in ther eI would ask the school IT department how to get them removed.

Do you have the windows recovery disk for this computer?

Do you still have the software from the school for installing the VMWare and LAN setup and other things that you shut-off?
 
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Well the thing about the LANdesk software is that they won't let students uninstall it. It is software created to allow them to see what is you are doing at all times on your laptop. So I decided to creatively circumvent that. The VMware stuff I installed myself and I have the installer still for it. I also have the Windows XP cd for my computer and it should work my laptop as well since they are both XP pro with SP2.
 
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I also have the Windows XP cd for my computer and it should work my laptop as well since they are both XP pro with SP2.

This is a bad assumption to make that it should work, if it is not the correct disk for this computer using it will cause more grief that it is worth.

The software you say you have is it a Microsoft disk?

What is the make and model of the computer in question?
 
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Since this is happening with the laptop I would not use the Windows XP disk that you used on the desktop since this is an IBM computer I really would suggest getting the IBM thinkpad disks for this computer even if you have to call IBM and purchase them. The IBM disks are written for the IBM and will be the easiest and proper way to go with this.
 
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Re-installing windows might not fix this because the services you stopped where not installed from the install software but you might need the correct IBM software to fix the services if the computer asks for it. What you are going to have to do is re-install the programs associated with the services that you shut down. This is how you fix the problem and if the windows software is needed you will have to have the correct IBM disks to do the job with.
 
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yeah kinda unbelievable but true. I often install similar applications on both computers so when I was removing what I thought was unnecessary I was doing it on both at the same time. This is not the schools fault in any way.
 
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