Windows – Disable Windows 8 On-Screen Keyboard

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I have a laptop with Windows 8. When I touch a text area, the on-screen keyboard pops up. I have a laptop. It has a physical keyboard. I don't need that. It's annoying.

I know which process to kill in order to stop it, TabTip.exe. I can manually open Task Manager to kill it every time I restart my computer, but that's a pain.

I have 2 solutions, but I cannot implement either because TabTip.exe is an administrator file.

  1. Rename or move the file, so Windows cannot find it.

  2. Write a batch file to kill the process, and then put it in the startup folder.

I would preferably like to do option 1. It seems more efficient.

What can be done?

Best Answer

Something to try - disable the "Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service".

To do so: Run services.msc, and scroll down to find the "Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service". Stop it, and configure it's properties to set it's startup type to "Disabled".

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