DS 8.X.X Keyboard Lock in WinPe

Products

• Client Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

WinPe boot menu has been created with keyboard/mouse locked. How to unlock the Keyboard for troubleshooting reasons.

Resolution

Locking and unlocking of keyboard can be done with "wndclt.exe" that resides in root of X on client machine while booted into WinPE (wndclt.exe /? for all available switches)

-lock

Lock input for all windows

-unlock

Unlock and allow input for all windows

There commands need to be delivered to endpoint from console via run script task (as the client machine is locked and you will not be able to enter them manually)