Article Number: 000147152
Disabling the Track Stick in Windows Before Login
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| Article Summary: | Disabling the track stick outside of the operating system. |
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- Why did my track stick re-enable itself on restart?
- Disabling the track stick outside of the operating system.
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Users have reported that the track stick will continue to work, upon reboot, after having been disabled in Windows.
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This is the standard setting of the operating system and disabling the track stick only disables it for that login profile. Before logging into the account, there is no profile to disable the track stick.
If you want the track stick disabled outside of the login, the following registry edit can disable it in Windows before logging in.
If you want the track stick disabled outside of the login, the following registry edit can disable it in Windows before logging in.
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| As a best practice it is always advisable to back up the registry before you modify it so you will be able to restore the registry to its original state if a problem occurs. Instructions for backing up the registry can be located at: http://windows.microsoft.com/windows-vista/back-up-the-registry |
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| Note that this process involves a modification to the Windows registry. Please be aware that serious problems might occur if the registry is incorrectly modified. |
- Click on start
- Type regedit into the search bar (or click on run and type regedit in Windows XP)
- Navigate to the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96F-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000
- Locate the SelectDevice entry.
- If there is not one, create a new entry as a DWORD value and name it SelectDevice.
- Double click the entry to edit and set the hexadecimal value. To disable the track stick 00000039. To enable the track stick 0000003f.
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Last Published Date
10 Apr 2021
Version
4
Article Type
Solution