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Unable to launch onscreen keyboard (osk.exe) from a 32-bit process on Win7 x64

Asked 2010-05-28T13:19:16.947
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90% of the time I am unable to launch osk.exe from a 32bit process on Win7 x64. Originally the code was just using:

Process.Launch("osk.exe");

Which won't work on x64 because of the directory virtualization. Not a problem I thought, I'll just disable virtualization, launch the app, and enable it again, which I thought was the correct way to do things. I also added some code to bring the keyboard back up if it has been minimized (which works fine) - the code (in a sample WPF app) now looks as follows:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Navigation;using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace KeyboardTest
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
        private static extern bool Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection(ref IntPtr ptr);
        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
        public static extern bool Wow64RevertWow64FsRedirection(IntPtr ptr);

        private const UInt32 WM_SYSCOMMAND = 0x112;
        private const UInt32 SC_RESTORE = 0xf120;
        [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
        static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, UInt32 Msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);

        private string OnScreenKeyboadApplication = "osk.exe";

        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void KeyboardButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            // Get the name of the On screen keyboard
            string processN
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For those who are facing "Could not start On-Screen Keyboard.", change your project's Platform Target to Any CPU.

answered 2013-06-08T15:46:50.280

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