My fingers prefer to type CONTROL ESCAPE and then type "Regedit". Useful when running Windows Server in a VM on my Mac Book. That blog post reminds me of something that happened about 20 years ago, circa 2003. I had a Freedom Scientific Braille and Speak Note taker with a RS232 cable connected to a physical serial DB9 port on my Win 2k desktop computer. With the Braille and Speak in terminal mode and serial keys enabled in Windows I could type in Braille on the B&S and get alphanumeric serial input in Windows. Oddly enough though with this working I sometimes got errant input if I had other devices enabled like the USB to serial connection to my Windows Mobile PDA. What I wouldn’t give to have a working B&S (or similar) today. Frank
-----Original Message----- From: Rod Bartlett via cctalk <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 6, 2025 1:06 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected]> Cc: Rod Bartlett <[email protected]> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Another 780 backplane story > On Jul 6, 2025, at 1:55 PM, ben via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2025-07-06 11:28 a.m., Rod Bartlett via cctalk wrote: >> Here's the directions since it was somewhat non-intuitive. I created a >> Confluence page at work but everyone asks me to disable it each time the >> problem crops up. >> https://paulhutch.blog/2019/06/24/disable-serial-mouse-detection/ > Reads post, I have no Windows key on my keyboard, can I use Any other key? > Ben. With a real IBM keyboard. I think you can replace that portion of the procedure by starting your search for "regedit" in the search portion of the taskbar. My work laptop is the only Windows machine I have available and it's been updated to Windows 11. Barring that, I think regedit can also be found in File Explorer at C:\Windows\regedit.exe. However you find it, I believe you'll need to right click it and choose "Run as administrator". The rest of the procedure should be the same. I've done this on 4 or 5 Windows machines in our lab at work so far and so far it's worked for all of them. It amazes me that Windows still retains the serial mouse support. I don't think I've seen an actual serial mouse in more than 20 years. - Rod
