How To Disable Touch Screen In Dell Laptop

How To Disable Touch Screen In Dell Laptop
  • Sep 15th, 2023
  • Divya Sachdeva
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Touchscreen laptops are easy to use. Touch provides faster navigation and optimizes your computer for touch-oriented features and applications.

 The touchscreen is the default feature on touchscreen laptops and 2-in-1 tablets. But what if you want to disable the touchscreen and use other input methods? Could it be that your PC’s touchscreen is unstable or defective? You can disable the touchscreen until you find a solution.

Turn Off Touch Screen on Dell Laptop:

Although laptops vary in brand and design, the steps for disabling the touchscreen on all Windows devices are the same. It doesn’t matter if your laptop belongs to HP, Lenovo, Dell, or Acer. The methods described in this tutorial will work great on your device.

 You can disable the laptop touchscreen using three system tools built into the Windows operating system: Device Manager, Windows Registry, and Powershell. We’ll show you how to use these tools to disable the touchscreen on your laptop.

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 Turn Off Touch Screen from the Registry Editor:

The Windows registry stores important configuration files and settings for your computer’s hardware and software. You can turn off your PC’s touchscreen by creating an “emergency switch” that disables touch input in the registry.

This may sound a bit technical, but it’s easy. Also, this method comes in handy if the Device Manager on your PC is not working as expected.

 Before showing you the steps, we strongly recommend that you are backup your registry or create a system restore point. Deleting or corrupting any registry file can damage the Windows operating system and render some system programs unusable.

 If something goes wrong when you turn off the touchscreen, a backup can restore missing or damaged files and fix registry errors.

Press Windows Key + R to open the Windows Run dialog box. Alternatively, right-click the start menu icon and select Run from the shortcut menu.



How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

 

Type Regedit in the dialog’s search box and press Enter or click on OK.

 

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)



Paste Computer HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Wisp Touch into the address bar of the registry editor and press Enter.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

To create an emergency switch, right-click a space in the Touch folder, select New, and select DWORD (32-bit) Value.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)



Give a new name to the new registry value TouchGate and press Enter.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

Double-click TouchGate, make sure the Value Date is set to 0 and click OK.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

Then restart your laptop for the changes to take effect.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

To re-enable touch on your PC from the Windows registry, go to Computer HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Wisp Touch, double-click TouchGate, set Value date to 1, and select OK.

Then restart your computer to restore the touch screen function.

 

Turn Off Touch Screen via Device Manager:

Device Manager is a system application that allows you to manage hardware components on your Windows PC. By disabling the touch driver, you can turn off your PC’s touch screen.

Press Windows + X or right-click the Start menu icon and select Device Manager from the shortcut menu.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

Expand the Human Interface Devices category.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

Press right-click the HID-compliant touch screen and then click on Disable Device.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

Alternatively, select a driver and click the black down arrow icon in the toolbar.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

Select Yes at the confirmation prompt to turn off the computer’s touchscreen.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

If more than one touchscreen device is listed under Human Interface Devices, disable all of them and check if that turns off your PC’s touchscreen.

To re-enable the touchscreen in Device Manager, select touchscreen drivers and tap the green up arrow in the toolbar.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

You can also press right-click on the driver and select Enable Device.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

It is not recommended to disable the laptop touchscreen if the display is the only input method. This is because you cannot re-enable the touchscreen. Therefore, make sure you have other input devices (external keyboard or mouse) close at hand before turning off your computer’s touchscreen.

 

Turn Off Touch Screen via Windows Powershell:

Windows Powershell is another powerful system tool that you can use to change your computer’s hardware.

Right-click the Start button, or press Windows Key + X and select Windows PowerShell (Admin).

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

If you cannot find “Windows Powershell (Admin)” in the shortcut menu, enter PowerShell in the Windows search bar and select “Run as administrator” in the search results.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

Paste the below command into the Powershell terminal and press Enter.

Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object {$ _. FriendlyName -like ‘* touch screen * ’} | Disable-PnpDevice -Confirm: $ false

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

PowerShell may display an error (like in the image below) when running the command. Ignore the error message. Our test devices (HP and Lenovo laptops) no longer detected touch input despite this error message.

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

To re-enable the touchscreen via PowerShell, paste the below command into a terminal and press Enter.

Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object {$ _. FriendlyName -like ‘* touch screen * ’} | Enable-UPnp Device -Confirm: $ false

How to Turn Off the Touch Screen on Your Laptop (Dell, HP, etc)

Again, PowerShell may display a different error message. Ignore the error and touch the computer screen. It should be responsive to touch input without any problem. Otherwise, try the command again and restart your computer.

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Conclusion:

These are currently the accepted methods of disabling touch screen input on Windows computers. You don’t have to use all the techniques; could do the job. Make sure you follow the instructions above. Then restart your computer and back up your files if necessary.

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