(cache) How to disable the On-Screen Touch Keyboard in Windows 8

How to disable the On-Screen Touch Keyboard in Windows 8

4月 17, '13 コメント [30] Posted in Win8

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2013年4月17日 9:03:27 UTC

Maybe this could be inmproved by making two batch-files with "net stop [servicename]" and "net start [servicename]" and pin them to the startscreen.

Henning

2013年4月17日 10:36:49 UTC

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Guruprasad

2013年4月17日 11:05:34 UTC

Just another example (in a long list) of how Windows 8 gets in the way of productivity rather than improving it. I've got an X1 too and I find that after 6 months, I NEVER use the tiled start screen unless I have to get to an app I can't get to any other way. And my desktop task bar is filled with pinned stuff that has become a replacement for the start menu.

rhertz

2013年4月17日 11:28:37 UTC

Hi Scott,

From your blog feed, i am redirecting to this site feedblitz.com. Do you know about this?

Thx

Krunal Mevada

2013年4月17日 12:20:01 UTC

On my Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch, Win8 Pro, the service name is Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service, not sure why the naming is different.

Thanks for the tip!

Andrei Scripinciuc

2013年4月17日 13:50:51 UTC

This doesn't happen on my Dell XPS 12, unless if I am in tablet mode where I actually need on screen keyboard. Way to go Dell!

Naveed

2013年4月17日 14:24:29 UTC

I haven't had issues with this on the Surface, either, when the keyboard is out. In fact, if I have any problem, it's the opposite problem: the device becomes convinced the keyboard is available and won't raise the touch keyboard until I detach and reattach the cover. I don't know if it's something that the Surface (and Naveed reports the Dell XPS) does right or something your Lenovo does wrong, I don't have enough data to judge.

Nick

2013年4月17日 14:58:44 UTC

I have the opposite problem. I have (and my customers have) Windows 8 tablets (Surface) where the on-screen keyboard works like a charm in the Metro interface - but flat out fails to automatically display on text-field focus on the desktop.

It's nice that the keyboard can be dismissed (and even raised from the taskbar) but not having it auto display on text field focus is EXTREMELY annoying!

Steve

2013年4月17日 15:05:16 UTC

I spent a whole weekend trying to figure out why Win8 wouldn't recognize the keyboard on my desktop. The odd thing was, the keyboard worked on the login screen so I could type my password. Just stopped working when it got to the desktop.

Maybe I'll try to install it again this weekend. I wondered at the time if there was some setting that caused this to happen. Perhaps it's where this setting is changed?

Steve

2013年4月17日 16:08:10 UTC

It looks more of a driver issue to me. I use SurfacePro, the touch keyboard only shows when focus on a input field and when the TouchCover is folded back or detached.

Paul Chen

2013年4月17日 18:09:13 UTC

That on-screen keyboard should recognize if the input field is for a password. For example, when you're projecting your screen to another (large-screen) monitor and encounter an HTML password field, the keyboard should pop up for use, but should not show the keys being pressed, so that anyone else looking at the other monitor would not know what you typed.

Peter W

2013年4月17日 22:21:19 UTC

Love the X1 Carbon!

Salman Quazi

2013年4月17日 22:33:24 UTC

For whatever reason, this doesn't permanently disable the keyboard (or toolbar icon) when in VMware Fusion. On a resume, it's back.

Bo Jordan

2013年4月18日 9:31:45 UTC

Hi Scott,

On my Win 8/64 Pro desktop machine, Windows-Key+W does nothing. I always disable Windows dog-slow Search facility, and replace it with the speed-demon freeware "Agent Ransack" utility, which is at least twenty times faster, and provides substantially more functionality.

My guess is: disabling Windows search also disables the Windows-Key+W keyboard short-cut.

To get to the Services configuration facility I use: Windows-Key+R, followed by typing in: services.msc

You can also access the Services facility, of course, via menu: Start/Administrative Tools/Services.

I am using Start8 to bypass Modern, and have ripped every shred of Modern, and all default Windows Modern facilities, I can, out of the OS.

Thanks for reminding me of yet another service I can disable !

thanks, Bill

Bill Woodruff

2013年4月18日 9:38:14 UTC

@Krunal Mevada:

Of course Scott is aware of this. I assume you, like me, are blocking Feedblitz.com, for good reasons, so all links in the e-mail newsletter are unusable.

If everyone using FeedBlitz to serve content were as responsible as Scott: of course, I would not be blocking it !

Just go to Scott's home-page www.hanselman.com: everything mentioned in the e-mail is there, and I've had no problem, so far, accessing anything on Scott's excellent blog.

yours, Bill

Bill Woodruff

2013年4月21日 14:30:05 UTC

Well, I'm trying to figure out why you'd actually want to do this? The onscreen keyboard popups in Metro/Modern/Whatsitcallednow apps whenever an input element receives focus via touch.

Now if I'm assuming correctly, you're using touch to focus on to a textbox because it's faster than sliding the cursor to it and then getting irritated that the soft keyboard pops up. But the softkeyboard auto hides the moment you start typing on the physical keyboard, so it has to be because it's irritating isn't it?

Well, enter a suggestion to the MS feedback mail and ask for a setting to disable the soft keyboard for touch screen notebooks then. At the same time could you please remind them the touch cursor in DESKTOP mode is something they should bring back? :P

Marauderz

2013年5月14日 18:18:31 UTC

Thank you so much. It took me forever to try and figure that out myself; would you believe I was very close, but disabled the wrong thing?... right next to the option you mentioned. D'oh.

Patrick S.

2013年5月20日 16:17:24 UTC

Thanks, Scott! This was a big help.

Kellie C

2013年6月22日 6:17:44 UTC

That's all right but I want to disable auto-hide of the keyboard. As soon as I press the button on the physical keyboard on my laptop, keyboard vanishes. I want it to stay as I press the keys on the keyboard.

Anas Azeem

2013年7月14日 5:36:52 UTC

Hi Scott,

Is there a way to completely disable touch input on X1 Carbon? Usually, when we discuss on the issues on the production servers open, people have tendency to touch the screen which might have consequences.
I wonder is there a way I can make x1 carbon to act as if the screen is not touch enabled.

Thanks,
Shiju

Shiju Samuel

2013年7月27日 17:23:17 UTC

Physical keyboard won't work, except for logon. Hate onscreen. How do I make the keyboard work? Easy, please--I'm "technically challenged".

Diana Engel

2013年7月29日 21:34:54 UTC

Thanks for that. After searching numerous pages, this worked! Thanks again.

Robmnic

2013年7月31日 20:33:34 UTC

Thanks a lot! I connect my physical keyboard to my ultrabook and the onscreen keyboard was annoying!

JC Aguirre

2013年9月5日 7:15:19 UTC

thanks alot its done for me .

from iran engineer

2013年10月30日 20:49:32 UTC

Does not work on windows 8.1

Shows as disabled and stopped and still loads

Tried reboot

same results

Texas

2013年11月3日 18:48:56 UTC

If I could kiss you, I would! Thank you so much! I love my computer but hated the on-screen keyboard. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Jessica

2013年11月11日 17:16:45 UTC

Just like TEXAS said the service is no longer enabled on the list but it still loads the tactile keyboard every time it boots up.

It is not a real bother but since I don´t have a touch screen laptop it seems absurd that it continues to load and win 8.1 doesn´t have a way to get rid of these annoying things.

By the way, I assume this is the new paradigm and must be great on a tablet but a lot of us have machines that will run 8.1 just fine but will never have touch screens so why aren´t these services and interface configurable.

I use an i Pad and understand the need for tiles on a tablet but they are of no use in a non touch environment.

sferrari

sferrari

2013年11月15日 20:19:23 UTC

Thank you soooo much.

kris

2013年11月17日 19:04:30 UTC

Thank you so very much!! The auto touch keyboard was driving me crazy. It is so much better now-- thanks for the tip!

Jocelyn

2013年11月26日 6:10:57 UTC

Thank you so much .. God bless you!

Diana

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