{"id":1888,"date":"2015-02-17T20:49:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2023-08-11T19:08:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:38:57","slug":"disable-touch-screen-windows-8-1-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/disable-touch-screen-windows-8-1-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable Touch Screen on Windows 8.1 Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are using Windows 8.1 laptop<\/strong> or tablet<\/strong> from a long time, at some point you may want to disable touch screen of your Windows 8.1 laptop or tablet to conveniently use them as a PC.<\/p>\n

Although, Windows 8<\/a> and Windows 8.1 operating system is specially designed to use its amazing features with the experience of touch screen. Some of the Windows 8.1<\/a> features such as: lock screen, Start screen, Charms, and PC settings etc. have been exceptionally optimized more for touch screens.<\/p>\n

\"disable<\/a><\/p>\n

But sometimes, the touch screen functions might interrupt you in your work (work speed) and in this condition you will wish to use Windows 8.1 without touch screen<\/strong>. So, if you want to turn off touch screen feature on your Windows 8.1 laptop, tablet or desktop computers then a super quick Windows guide<\/a> mentioned below to help you. Here’s how:<\/p>\n

See also:<\/strong>\u00a0How to Install Windows 10 on Your Computer<\/a><\/p>\n

Disable Touch Screen on Windows 8.1<\/span><\/h2>\n

There are multiple ways to disable touch screen<\/strong> in Windows 8.1, but disabling touch screen through Device Manager is the most appropriate and simple task. Follow the steps to disable touchscreen:<\/p>\n

Step (1):<\/strong> First of all, open the Control Panel<\/strong> and search for “device manager<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

Step (2):<\/strong> From the search result, click on \u201cDevice Manager<\/strong>\u201d option.<\/p>\n

\"windows<\/a><\/p>\n

Step (3):<\/strong> On the Device Manager window, expand “Human Interface Devices<\/strong>” option to get the list of all options that are available under human interface devices setting.<\/p>\n

Step (4):<\/strong> From the options available under Human Interface Devices, find “HID-Compliant Touch Screen<\/strong>” option.<\/p>\n

\"windows<\/a><\/p>\n

Step (5):<\/strong> After that, right click on “HID-Compliant Touch Screen<\/strong>” option and select Disable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"disable<\/a><\/p>\n

Important note:<\/strong><\/span> On some touch screen computers, you will find few “HID-compliant device” options in the place of “HID-Compliant Touch Screen”. In this condition, disable each “HID-compliant device” option one by one until one works.<\/p>\n

Step (6):<\/strong> Now close the Device Manager window. That’s it!<\/p>\n

Once you done as shown in above steps, the touch screen feature will be disabled immediately. Now start enjoying Windows 8.1 laptop without touch screen.<\/p>\n

Read also:<\/strong>\u00a0How to Create a USB Recovery Drive in Windows 8.1<\/a><\/p>\n

Enable Touch Screen on Windows 8.1<\/span><\/h2>\n

After using your laptop or tablet without touch screen, if you want to again enable touch screen on Windows 8.1 then follow the same procedure as above. But after the right-click on “HID-Compliant Touch Screen<\/strong>” option and select Enable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If you found above mentioned Windows tips and tricks useful for you then share your views with us through comments. Have you any other ways to disable touch screen on Windows 8.1<\/a><\/strong> laptop, tablet or desktop computers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are using Windows 8.1 laptop or tablet from a long time, at some point you may want to disable touch screen of your Windows 8.1 laptop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,5],"tags":[142,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23786,"href":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/23786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerodollartips.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}