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  • Win 10 Professional.
  • Surface Pro 4.

    I want to DISABLE, the right/left edge-swipe (technical jargon, unknown to me).

    I use my OneNote-2016 all the time for taking notes and so I am writing on the screen as the SurfacePro4 is made to do. All the time my arm is swiping the left or right edge and these swiping gestures keep opening up and destroying my productivity.

Images for clarity below.

Ref to (image-1): Red rectangle is the area in which my hand or arm "swipes" and causing the action that is in the image; the same action can be acquired by touching the button/icon in the smaller red rectangle in the image. In this image the Action is "Task View".

(image-1) Left Edge Swiping Gesture Left Edge Swiping Gesture

Ref to (image-2): Red rectangle is the area in which my hand or arm "swipes" and causing the action that is in the image; the same action can be acquired by touching the button/icon in the smaller red rectangle in the image. In this image the Action is "New Notifications" and/or "Action Center".

(image-2) Right Edge Swiping Gesture Right Edge Swiping Gesture

*Note: On the System and OS I've listed on the top of the page, mouse/touch, "Device Settings", nor do "Synaptics Device" exist; DNE (does not exist). An image below to demonstrate the accuracy of this: enter image description here

ejbytes
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I found a solution called Skip MetroSuite

http://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.103

I checked all the boxes and now theres no swipe gestures on any edges. It's amazing.

Mokubai
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sgfdg
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I found a solution to this on Windows 10 (14393.576) for Surface 4.

(see screenshot below)

  1. Edit Group Policy,
  2. Go to Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Edge UI
  3. set "allow edge swipe" to "Disabled"
  4. restart enter image description here
T. Webster
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If you go to settings > Devices > Pen & Windows Ink, there is a little box under pen options "Ignore touch input when I'm using my pen" and if you check this box it should help. I was having the same issue with using my writing on PowerPoint presentations, it would change slides while I was taking notes for the class, but it stopped when I checked this box.

Dusty
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