morcooking.blogg.se - november 2022

How to disable touch screen on windows 7

Your touch screen will be disabled in Windows 10 and Windows 8.

Right click the device you located and pick "Disable" from its context menu.

In most cases, it will be "HID-compliant touch screen":

Expand the 'Human Interface Devices' category and look for a device with the words "touch screen" in its name.

Pick Device Manager from the Win + X menu to start it.

Tip: Here is the ultimate list of all Windows keyboard shortcuts with Win keys. I recommend you to look at our tutorial here: Use Win+X menu to manage tasks in Windows 10 faster.

Open the Power User (Win + X) menu: just press Win + X shortcut keys together on the keyboard.

Here are step-by-step instructions: How to disable touch screen in Windows 10 and Windows 8 You need not make any Registry tweaks or use third party tools. However, it is possible to disable it using Device Manager. Because this service is also tied with Handwriting Panel pen and ink feature, you won’t be able to use the handwriting if you turn off this service.Windows 10 and Windows 8 does not provide any option in the Settings app to disable touch screen input. The on-screen touch keyboard will not bother you anymore as soon as you stopped this Touch keyboard windows service.īut it comes with a side-effect that’s worth mentioning. Double click it, first to stop it if it’s running, and then change the Startup type to either Manual or Disable to prevent it from auto-starting next time when computer starts.

Scroll down a bit until locate the service called Touch keyboard …ģ. Press Win+R, type “ services.msc“, and press Enter to bring up Services window.Ģ. Stopping this service will be in result of disabling the on-screen keyboard.ġ. Turns out, it’s powered by a windows service called Touch keyboard and handwriting pane. And it’s better having it disabled to save a little bit of resource for something else, though Windows 8 is smart enough knowing when to pop up and when not to pop up this keyboard.īut if you look around the settings charm you won’t be able to see a setting that lets you easily turn this on-screen keyboard on and off. But if you have a keyboard like Surface touch keyboard or Tablets like Lenovo X1 you might not need this on-screen touch keyboard at all. The on-screen touch Keyboard on Windows 8 looks nice and works great on touch screen or Windows 8 tablet.