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Léo Léopold Hertz 준영
Asked: 2009-05-18 15:25:17 +0800 CST

Unable to uninstall Microsoft's Keyboard Drivers in Mac

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I installed the Microsoft's Keyboard drivers for my Natural Ergonomic 4000.

My customized keyboard is now broken. I want to uninstall the drivers. I removed the buttons for MS keyboard at Preferences, but this did not remove the drivers.

How can you uninstall the keyboard drivers?

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    There should be an uninstaller application in your Utilities folder (/Applications/Utilities/) called either IntelliPoint UnInstaller.app or IntelliType UnInstaller.app

    If those are not available, the extensions are saved in /System/Library/Extensions - namely MicrosoftMouse.kext and MicrosoftKeyboard.kext. In order to safely remove these you will want to run the commands:

    sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/MicrosoftMouse.kext
    sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extenstions/MicrosoftKeyboard.kext

    before dragging the files to your trash. If you don't it may not allow you to delete them until you restart.

    Lastly, under /Library/Keyboard Layouts there may be a file called Microsoft Keyboards.bundle you can drag to the trash and delete as well.

    kextunload stands for kernel extension unload.

    Credit to Suspicious Package for the details on the installer.

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