Questions tagged [touchscreen]
Questions about touchscreen laptops or other touchscreen devices and their usage
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Windows 8.1 -- disable touch screen?
My computer comes with a touch screen. I may want that someday, but right now I don't. Is there a way to disable it? I am running Windows 8.1. Thanks!
EDIT: When I go to Pen and touch via ...
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Touchscreen's X axis is inverted on my tablet
Touchscreen's X axis is inverted.
If I touch right bottom corner, tablet thinks I clicked windows button in left bottom corner.
This happened after installing driver from the internet (before it was ...
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How to completely disable Touch Screen on Windows 7
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 ...
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How do I disable the touch screen on Windows 8.1 for a Lenovo X220?
I would like to try disabling the touch screen on my Lenovo X220 to diagnose odd mouse jumps. Looking at Lenovo forum answers the way to do this is to 'Go to Control Panel "Pen and Touch" and uncheck "...
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Windows Touch Screen With Multiple Monitors Puts Cursor On Wrong Monitor
I have see a lot of people asking this question and getting answers that supposedly worked. NOTHING I have found works for me.
I have a default Dell monitor that came with my Dell XPS 1700. It has ...
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Disable On Screen Keyboard in Windows 7
I run Windows Embedded Standard 7 with a multi touch screen (running on the UPDD driver 4.01.10). The system is running an application in kiosk mode with no need for any other input device.
The On ...
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Detecting touch screen presses in AutoHotkey in Windows 8
I am using a Dell Venue 8 Pro running Windows 8.1 32 bit. I am trying to use AutoHotkey to map certain regions of the screen to certain buttons on the keyboard, in order to be able to use the touch ...
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tabcal.exe command line switches
There is a utility on Windows 7 that allows you to do touch calibration, if you have a supported touch screen.
The executable is tabcal.exe and it's located in:
C:\Windows\System32
I'm look for a ...
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Changing drag & drop behaviour in Windows 7's explorer for touch screen use
I have a new touch screen, and am playing around with its functionality. The most productive use for me is organizing files (literally) by hand. It's fun working through a list of files, dragging and ...
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Mix touchscreen and non-touch screen monitors in Windows 7?
Is it possible to have two monitors in Windows 7, one touch screen and the other not? Obviously you would need a mouse to interact with the non-touch screen, but could you still use the touch ...
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How do I disable the small pen cursor in Windows 7?
I have a Windows 7 machine running a touch-driven application, and whenever a user touches the screen, this small diamond shaped cursor appears. I believe the cursor is intended for pen and tablet use....
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Touch gestures in IE not working without explorer.exe being run once
Edit: Rephrasing my question:
Upon further troubleshooting, I can conclude that:
Touch gestures (dragging, pinch to zoom, touch-and-hold right click) in Internet Explorer start to work when:
The ...
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How to disable weird scrolling change in Windows 8.1 Explorer
I've been having this issue where every time I scroll in a Windows Explorer window using my touchpad the cursor changes to this weird dot. For a lack of better words it just scrolls funny in explorer ...
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Use a touchscreen as a keyboard and mouse for a desktop
Is there a program or utility that allows me to connect a touchscreen to my desktop PC and use it as a keyboard input device? My plan is to upgrade the screen on my laptop, pair the old screen with a ...
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Google Chrome kiosk mode - disable select and copy contextmenu
I need to display an information website. The user should only be able to press buttons and use scrollbars through a touch screen.
The kiosk mode of Google Chrome fits this requirements pretty well.
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Fixing imprecise stylus drag in Windows 8 & 10
Shortly after I started using Windows 8, I noticed click & drag behaves differently when using a mouse vs a stylus.
With a mouse, the drag begins at the location where the cursor was when the ...
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Windows 7 touch emulate mouse
I have recently bought a small 10" capacitive touchscreen which works in windows 7 with the native HID touch support.
For my application, I dont need multi-touch support at all. I need it to exactly ...
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Control Windows 8 with a tablet
It seems much of Windows 8 is based on the idea that it will be running on tablets, and touch screen PCs. I like this, but I don't have a W89 tablet, or a touch PC yet.
I'm running W8 on a laptop, ...
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Disable Touchscreen Automatically on Boot in Bash
I have a touchscreen laptop that uses Ubuntu (HP Spectre X360). My screen has been replaced a couple of times and so there is a sometimes a problem with the touchscreen that makes it think that it is ...
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Windows Multiple Touch Screens - Touch on Wrong Monitor
I've got a PC with 7 touch screens connected to it. I use the 'Setup' in 'Tablet PC Settings' to link touch to the screens.
What we have found is that after a number of reboots, we will begin to see ...
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How to map the Touchscreen Windows Button to right-mouseclick
My Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro has an extra Windows Touch Button next to the touchscreen.
Is it possible to remap that button to the right mouse button?
This would be very helpful in many games, that are not ...
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Touchscreen over Ethernet (with video?)
I've got touchscreen which has a VGA output and a USB (or alternatively, serial) connection which acts like a mouse (for the resistive touch part).
I've got Cat5E cabling in my house, and would like ...