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How to Enable or Disable Touch Screen in Windows 10

Posted on 09/02/202017/08/2026 Christian By Christian No Comments on How to Enable or Disable Touch Screen in Windows 10
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In this article, we shall discuss how to Enable or Disable Touch Screen in Windows 10. This is different from how to Prevent On-Screen Keyboard from starting automatically and from Appearing at Login. Windows 10’s touchscreen functionality offers a more interactive way to use your device, similar to using a tablet or smartphone. Please see How to remove an MDT Deployment Share, How to Overlay two files with UnionFs in a Linux System, and How to disable Lock Screen on Windows 10.

The touchscreen is an input mechanism that enables you to interact with your device (on-screen displayed applications etc.). Rather than using a mouse, and keyboard (touchpad), etc.

If your device has a touch scree. You may want to disable and enable touch by finger for your account in Windows 10 using the following methods below.

Also, see “What are the differences between Lite-Touch and Zero-Touch installation“, and How to disable automatic screen lock in Ubuntu Linux.

Enable or Disable Touch Screen via the Registry Editor

Navigate to this path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Wisp\Touch and modify the value data of “TouchGate”

0 = Disable
1 = Enable

Note: If this DWORD (32) is not available, kindly create a new DWORD of “TouchGate” and set the desired valued data.

Disable Touch Screen

Via the Device Manager

To have this disabled or enabled via the device manager, follow the following steps below.

- Type device manager and lunch it. 
- Search for Human interface Device or Press Windows + X, Click Device Manager.
- Search for Human interface Device or
Screenshot of the Device Manager interface showing the 'Human Interface Devices' section with an option to 'Disable device' highlighted.

To enable the touchscreen input, follow the same exact steps.

I hope you found this blog post on how to how to Enable or Disable Touch Screen in Windows 10 helpful. Please let me know in the comment session if you have any questions.

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