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FIX: Windows 8 Touch Keyboard gets automatically enabled after reboot

On some Windows 8 PCs which do not even have touch screens, I have observed an annoyance - the Touch Keyboard automatically keeps getting enabled after every restart. Even if you disable it by right clicking the Taskbar and disabling it from the list of Taskbar Toolbars, its icon keeps coming back. Here's how to disable it for good if you don't need it.


Touch Keyboard

  1. On the Start screen or in your Start Menu, type Services.msc and press Enter.
  2. The Services Management Console will open. Locate the Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service.
    Touch Keyboard Service
  3. Double click this service. Stop it if it's running and change the Startup type to Disabled.
  4. Click OK.

That's it. Now the touch keyboard will no longer annoy you. Note that this disables some touch and handwriting recognition features in Windows, so if you need this, do not disable it.

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Author: Gaurav Kale

Gaurav is a software enthusiast from India and Classic Shell tester & UX consultant. He started with Windows 95 and is good at software usability testing. He firmly believes that user experience is just as important as software code quality and architecture for software to be successful.

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