Fun With Windows And Keyboards
Been trying to reinstall XP after a brief and ill advised trip into Vista.
Got as far as the “personalize” screen, which asks for your name and organization, with a functioning keyboard. At that point XP refused to recognize my wireless keyboard, an additional USB keyboard, as well as denying the existence of each when paired with a USB-PS/2 adapter.
Throughout the entire process I was able to enjoy full support for my wireless USB mouse connected via the same wireless USB hub as the first keyboard. Wasted an hour and a half before desperately right clicking and inserting random unicode and clicking enter.
LOL, bypassed all the nonsense and now have a functioning machine.
As an aside: When installing Windows on a newly formatted machine, make sure to leave it incapable of accessing any sort of network until you have a firewall built in. You literally have seconds on that battlefield before malware will mow you down.
-Shlok
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