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kudlatiger
kudlatiger

Reputation: 3278

How to disable touch screen of laptops using PowerShell script?

My clients are using "HP Elitebook 840" touch screen laptop and recently we launched a website for their service, unfortunately click events on buttons did not worked in the web site. After a long R&D we realized it was touch screen issue and mouse click events started working after disabling it.

More info here: Click events are not working in Chrome, but event fires when we execute it manually from console

Since there are more than 40 users having same touch screen laptops, we would like to run a script to disable the touch feature of these laptops. I think network admin needs to run powershell script to do it, but I could not figure it out how to write single script to disable the touch screen of systems

I was reading http://www.surfaceforums.net/threads/disable-the-touch-screen-to-use-the-pen.12338/ but since I am new to PowerShell so need more detailed steps.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9696

Answers (5)

Adrian
Adrian

Reputation: 10911

I found this question and saw the answers, which are good. However, I found that I didn't want two different scripts to enable/disable the touch screen. I wanted to have it under one to just toggle it's state, so I wrote this script:

# To allow script to be executed on double click
# https://stackoverflow.com/a/30644946/1366368

# To sign script
# https://adamtheautomator.com/how-to-sign-powershell-script/

# To automatically elevate script to admin privs, I used this code fromn https://superuser.com/a/532109/222708
param([switch]$Elevated)

function Test-Admin {
    $currentUser = New-Object Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal $([Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent())
    $currentUser.IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltinRole]::Administrator)
}

if ((Test-Admin) -eq $false)  {
    if ($elevated) {
        # tried to elevate, did not work, aborting
    } else {
        # Removed -noexit as it will force the powershell instance to keep running after finishing
        Start-Process powershell.exe -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList ('-noprofile -file "{0}" -elevated' -f ($myinvocation.MyCommand.Definition))
    }
    exit
}

# If Status of touch screen is Error, then it is off.
$result = (Get-PnpDevice|Where-Object {$_.FriendlyName -like '*touch screen*'}|Select -ExpandProperty 'Status')
if ($result -eq 'Error') {
  Write-Host "Enabling touch screen"
  Get-PnpDevice|Where-Object {$_.FriendlyName -like '*touch screen*'}|Enable-PnpDevice -Confirm:$false
} else {
  Write-Host "Disabling touch screen"
  Get-PnpDevice|Where-Object {$_.FriendlyName -like '*touch screen*'}|Disable-PnpDevice -Confirm:$false
}

Upvotes: 1

immobile2
immobile2

Reputation: 569

After some trial and error, I decided the best thing for me was to save two .bat files to handle this so that I could easily launch it using Launchy. Code below - you might need to add in logic to for the ExecutionPolicy based on your configuration, but works for me as written.

Copy this into notepad and save it as a .bat - just switch out "Disable" for "Enable" and you're good to go either direction

@ECHO off
Powershell.exe -Command "& {Start-Process Powershell.exe -ArgumentList '-Command ""& {Get-PNPDevice | Where-Object FriendlyName -Like ''*touch screen*'' | Disable-PNPDevice -Confirm:$false} ; Get-PNPDevice | Where-Object FriendlyName -Like ''*touch screen*'' ; if ($Host.Name -eq ''ConsoleHost'') {Write-Host ''Press any key to continue...'' ; $Host.UI.RawUI.FlushInputBuffer() ; $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey(''""NoEcho,IncludeKeyUp''"") > $null}""' -Verb RunAs}"

Upvotes: 1

Stephen Boston
Stephen Boston

Reputation: 1189

Powershell nuggets to disable/enable laptop touch screen. Tested in Windows 10 on Asus UX 501. Run as administrator. 

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

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

(Source)

Upvotes: 15

Alejandro Mora
Alejandro Mora

Reputation: 21

Use this in PowerShell:

Set-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wisp\Touch -Name TouchGate -Value 0 -Type DWord

Restart machine after.

Upvotes: 2

Johan de Haan
Johan de Haan

Reputation: 1018

You can use the following registry key to disable touch input (requires a reboot):

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wisp\Touch]
"TouchGate"=dword:00000000

Or with PowerShell:

Set-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wisp\Touch ompany -Name TouchGate -Value 0 -Type DWord

Upvotes: 1

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