Windows 10 includes a touch keyboard for computers and tablets with a touch screen. When you touch any text field on your tablet, the touch keyboard appears on the screen. By default, the touch keyboard capitalizes the first letter of each sentence. If you are not happy with this feature, here is how to disable it.
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If you are the owner of a touch screen, then Windows 10 will show you the advanced options of the touch keyboard in Settings -> Devices -> Typing.
To prevent the touch keyboard from capitalizing the first letter of each sentence in Windows 10, disable the option Capitalize the first letter of each sentence under Touch keyboard on the right (see the screenshot above).
Now open your touch keyboard and type something. It won't capitalize the first letter.
It is possible to disable this feature with a tweak. This can be useful if your device doesn't have a touch screen.
To disable the first letter capitalization in the touch keyboard In Windows 10 with a tweak, do the following.
If you do not have a touch screen, then Windows 10 will hide all advanced settings of the touch keyboard:
So, you cannot use the Settings app to disable the first letter capitalization of the touch keyboard without a touch screen. The only way for you is a Registry tweak.
- Open Registry Editor (see how).
- Go to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7
Tip: You can access any desired Registry key with one click. If this key doesn't exist, just create it.
- In the right pane, you should create the EnableAutoShiftEngage value. This 32-bit DWORD value is responsible for the first letter capitalization feature of the touch keyboard. Set it to 0 to disable the feature. Note: Even if you are running a 64-bit Windows 10 version, you need to use a 32-bit DWORD value type.
- A value data of 1 will enable the feature. Note: This is the default behavior.
- Sign out from your Windows 10 user session and sign in back.
To save your time, you can download ready-to-use Registry files.
The undo tweak is included.
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