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I have a Dell Precision laptop, and on Windows 7 I've been having trouble with the touch screen. The cursor jumps around the screen when I'm not touching it. I'm not sure if it's a driver issue, or a hardware issue, but it's really annoying. Since I don't use the touch screen anyway, I figured I would just disable it.

So I went into the "Touch" tab in "Pen and Touch" in Control Panel, and unchecked the "Use your finger as an input device" option. This mostly works. However, on the Ctrl-Alt-Delete screen, or when any UAC dialog is displayed, the touch screen works again and as a result the cursor starts jumping around again.

Is there another way to disable the touch screen in Windows 7?

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    The best way would be to disable the device itelf.
    – Ramhound
    Nov 6, 2013 at 18:18
  • That was my first idea, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that. There are no settings in the system BIOS or any buttons or switches to disable it. Typically, I did find a solution minutes after posting the question, even though I've had the problem for over a months :/
    – Gerald
    Nov 6, 2013 at 18:36
  • It would have been listed in Device Manager
    – Ramhound
    Nov 6, 2013 at 18:48
  • Ahh, I see what you mean now. Yes, after I found the right one of about 10 different "HID-compliant device" entries, that worked as well. I guess so many unnamed devices may be an indication that the underlying problem could be a driver issue after all.
    – Gerald
    Nov 6, 2013 at 19:37
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    I am happy my thought process lead to an answer
    – Ramhound
    Nov 7, 2013 at 11:07

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So I found the "Tablet PC Input Service", stopped and disabled it, and the problem seems to have gone away.

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  • This is probably the best way to disable it completely. Good catch.
    – Josh
    Nov 6, 2013 at 18:46

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