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Hello, I need a script to disable the keyboard, mouse (only the buttons), the tower power & reset buttons and the dvd eject button because my 2y old daughter cannot stop pressing all these buttons & keys. Please any help with the commands and the way to exit from the script when all the keys and mouse buttons are disabled. Thanks.

LOL! I feel for ya. I remembered seeing something like this and did a search. Try this:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic20601.html

DBM

for power buttons

Thanks a lot, I think it will work but the script doesn't disable the tower power , reset & dvd eject buttons, is there a way to do this?

The tower's power and reset switches are hardware based and can't be controlled by AHK. The dvd drive eject but is similar but there are software methods of opening and closing the drawer.

I could help you disable all the switches so they no longer work, I could help you relocate them to the back of the tower... but your best choice is to just try a velcro attached cover plate over the front of the computer. That should prevent the 'joy presses' of the buttons. Think of a U shaped portion of a small garbage can or plastic storage container with 2 of the ends removed. a couple of pieces of self-adhesive velcro on the outside of the computer and the inside of U shaped cover.

What I had to do was give my boys a toy with more exciting buttons thaat they would focus on and ignore the computer. In about a year you won't have to worry about it.

In modern PCs, the power switch/button only sends a signal to the OS - what happens then depends on the OS and configuration. Guest's screenshot shows where it can be configured, but what it doesn't show is that you can configure the power button to "Do nothing". There's also an example script which can prevent shutdown, but it reportedly doesn't work in Vista and later.

Of course, that doesn't solve the reset problem.

Googling "disable eject" indirectly turned up this:
I see Toddler Keys is also mentioned in the thread da_boogie_man linked (Toddler Keyboard).

You can also set the button to power-off pc only after button has been held down for 4 seconds (done in cmos setup)