How can I disable my laptop's built-in keyboard?

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Published on 2011-10-14T13:31:30Z Indexed on 2012/06/23 15:18 UTC
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I have a HP Compaq Presario C700 laptop with Windows 7 installed on it.

My laptop's keyboard is not working properly; some keys never work and some keys will keep on pressing. I've formatted the OS but it didn't solve my problem.

I bought an external USB keyboard and it works well. As some keys in the built-in keyboard activate themselves, I still couldn't work effectively.

After searching Google I tried the following steps to disable the built-in keyboard:

  1. Disabled keyboard drivers:
    This didn't work because when the system reboots, the driver gets installed again automatically.

  2. Installed irrelevant driver for keyboard:
    This failed - I couldn't install the driver. After rebooting it installed the correct driver automatically.

Can anyone help explain how I can temporarily uninstall my built-in keyboard? I don't want to remove it manually (removing the hardware cable).

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