{"id":65179,"date":"2024-08-09T10:23:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T09:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=65179"},"modified":"2024-08-09T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T09:23:03","slug":"windows-installation-keyboard-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/65179\/windows-installation-keyboard-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows installation: Keyboard not working?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to do if the Windows keyboard does not work during Windows installation?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we get feedback that certain things don&#8217;t work when installing Windows, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/48262\/windows-11-ohne-netzwerk-installieren\/\">entering commands<\/a>. So far, we have not been able to do this properly. However, the installation also works without a keyboard if at least the mouse does its job.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of content<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/65179\/windows-installation-keyboard-not-working\/#Part_1_of_the_Windows_setup\" >Part 1 of the Windows setup<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/65179\/windows-installation-keyboard-not-working\/#Part_2_setting_up_Windows\" >Part 2, setting up Windows<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Part_1_of_the_Windows_setup\"><\/span>Part 1 of the Windows setup<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The first part still works completely with the mouse, start installation, accept license terms, all this works with the mouse. We cannot enter the product key this way, but this can be done later.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keyboard_en_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keyboard_en_1.png 715w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keyboard_en_1-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Part_2_setting_up_Windows\"><\/span>Part 2, setting up Windows<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The second part is more difficult, here too most things can be done with the mouse. However, if you want to enter something somewhere, whether in the command line or when entering user input, it becomes difficult. The good news here, however, is that we have access to the on-screen keyboard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keyboard_en_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"975\" height=\"751\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keyboard_en_2.png 975w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keyboard_en_2-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keyboard_en_2-768x592.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once this is activated, it can be used for input. Make sure that the prompt has the focus and is clicked\/active.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to do if the Windows keyboard does not work during Windows installation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1558],"class_list":["post-65179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-windows-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}