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Magdalene:
Hi everyone,
Running Win 7 Pro X64 and am unable to launch the On Screen Keyboard either from Ease of access or by running the exe C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe. Just get pop up error box 'Could not start On Screen keyboard'.

Things Tried so far:

Run SFC /Scannow and all OK
Ran in both Safe and Clean Modes. Still same problem
Created new account to exclude a possible corrupt profile. Still same problem
Ran CHKDSK and third party Disc checker to eliminate HDD problems. All OK.
Checked permissions/size of osk.exe and corresponds to another machine.
Toggled PC Tablet Components feature and re-booted.
No Lock down prog installed just Avast Free and WinPatrol
Copied osk.exe from another machine to desktop and ran as admin.

All above to no avail.
At loss on how to proceed further, help please anybody.

Magdalene

Boggin:
You seemed to have tried everything - does Event Viewer record anything for the error ?

Magdalene:
Hi,
Thanks for prompt reply.

Not really familiar with event logs, could you walk me through how to capture what we are looking for please.

magdalene

Boggin:
Go Start - type eventvwr and press enter.

When it has read the data and you see Critical, Error etc. - click on Error then on View All Instances of This Event in the lower right pane.

You will be presented with a list of date and time stamped errors with their Event ID numbers.

What I suggest is to reboot, making a note of the time then try to access the on screen keyboard and when you get the error message, go into Event Viewer where you will see the immediate time stamped errors.

Clicking on each will produce more info in the pane below and you can copy & paste each error into your reply box by clicking on them then on Copy/Copy details as text in the lower right pane - right click in the reply box and select Paste.

I noticed you have been receiving help on the Bleeping.com forum, but so far to no avail.

Did the machine come with Win 7 Pro pre-installed ?

Boggin:
One other thing you don't have appeared to have tried is to run a command prompt as an admin and enter osk.exe

If it fails to run from there, it may produce an error code.

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