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. 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. To display On-screen keyboard, refer to below steps: Touch Windows icon on Home screen. The keyboard should popup when i enter a text-field in browser or an editor for example, or in word, excel, etc. You can type a lot of characters that may not have a corresponding key on your keyboard such as European language alphabetic characters, ASCII symbols, and even Chinese characters (also known as Hanzi, Kanji, or Hanja). I want to resolve the following problem: When you are in desktop-mode, the touchscreen-keyboard will not automatically popup. In Windows, you can type any character you want by holding down the ALT key, typing a sequence of numbers, then releasing the ALT key.
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. i have a Acer W510 Tablet with Windows 8 Pro. Scroll down a bit until locate the service called Touch keyboard …ģ. Note: If youre not seeing the touch keyboard button, tap and hold (or right-click) the taskbar and select Show touch keyboard button. Tap where youd like to enter text, and the touch keyboard will open automatically. Press Win+R, type “ services.msc“, and press Enter to bring up Services window.Ģ. On a tablet or a PC in tablet mode, select Touch keyboard on the taskbar. 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. The touch keyboard is launched using this executable and command line on my surface tab: 'C:Program FilesCommon Filesmicrosoft sharedinkTabTip.exe' /QuitInfo:0000070C 00000738 In the past. 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. FYI, Win key is the Windows Logo key on your keyboard. Windows 11 brings a few Keyboard Shortcuts for accessing its cool new features such as widgets, snap layouts, action center, and quick settings.
The on-screen touch Keyboard on Windows 8 looks nice and works great on touch screen or Windows 8 tablet. By learning these universal shortcuts, you can navigate both Windows 10 and Windows 11 easily.