Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?
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HN comment order- hey boss, I got the driver working from the sample but the icon is a toaster - can you fix it? - not sure, I tried a whole day and couldn't figure it out... - whatever, ship it!
A toaster keyboard would be awesome if, like me, you have butter fingers.
It's the Internet Of Things. Microsoft was just trying to be ahead of the curve (post was from 2014). Afterall, there are now IoT dishwashers, refrigerators, coffeemakers, etc. Whose to say there won't be an IoT toaster?
Hah! I just ran into the toaster sample the other day. I was thinking about writing a low level device driver to emulate an XInput device. I know neither low level Windows programming, nor C++, nor the USB stack, so my adventure went quite poorly. Nevertheless, I was encourage to see just how much sample code Microsoft provides. As a long time reader of Raymond Chen, I know not all of it is production quality, but you can practically copy/paste…
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- Total points
- 470
- Total comments
- 80
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-05 | Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?First breakout · Best thread | SergeyDruid | 227 | 46 |
| 2016-04-02 | Why Does Windows Think My Keyboard Is a Toaster? (2014) | zo1 | 175 | 28 |
| 2017-08-10 | Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster? | federicoponzi | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-02-21 | Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster? | egeozcan | 22 | 1 |
| 2020-10-19 | Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster? (2014) | lavahumour | 4 | 0 |
| 2021-02-17 | Superuser: 'Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?'Latest 20+ point return | a9d34571 | 40 | 5 |