Thanks! That's good to know. I'll freely admit that I haven't run a version of Windows at home since Windows 2000 which was the last version I had a hand in developing device drivers for (ADSL modems for 3Com). Since the I've often been forced to use a Windows laptop for work but in most cases, it just only serves to provide terminal connections to a Linux development machine. I do embedded firmware and the Linux tools are much better.
- Rod > On Jul 6, 2025, at 5:15 PM, Frank Ventura via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > >
