Thanks for the help.

Just to follow up a bit.  I was able to partially acheive my goal.

I'm able to poll through the active drivers in the registry.  If a keyboard
driver is present, I can assume that a keyboard is attached.

Here is the code I created:

/// <summary>

/// Polls the registry to see if any keyboard drivers are active. If yes,

/// then it assumes that there is a keyboard attached.

/// </summary>

/// <returns><see cref="true"/> if keyboard was detected.</returns>

public static bool IsPresent()

{

bool isPresent = false;

RegistryKey rk = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"Drivers\Active");

string[] activeDrivers = rk.GetSubKeyNames();

foreach (string subKeyName in activeDrivers)

{

RegistryKey subKey = rk.OpenSubKey(subKeyName);

try

{

string val = subKey.GetValue("key") as string;

if (val is string && val.EndsWith("Keyboard"))

{

isPresent = true;

break;

}

}

catch { } //no action

}

return isPresent;

}

No warranties implied,

Drew