Rehearsal / stuck key - can I turn off a laptop keyboard and use an external one instead?

I have an Acer Aspire 5542, Windows 7, SP1, with intermittent repetition ' / @ key. By hitting the icon start the search box begins to fill with "'s, even with the address of the toolbar area. The same thing happens if I create a new folder, the name starts to fill with "'. I tried to clean under the ' key, without effect. To make life easy, I plugged in a USB keyboard that allows, as sometimes the repetition "'s do not strike. But what I want to do is to disable the built in keyboard until I can set an appropriate fix. Is this possible?

You should be able to disable a keyboard in the Device Manager, with two keyboards connected two of them should appear in the device manager then disable one.  If it's evil, re - enable and disable it.  :-)

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