Touch Keyboard on Windows 10 Logon Screen

Question

We are using Windows 10 on a kiosk system. Normally, the user interacts with the system via touch-screen, but a keyboard is available if required.

We have enabled "Automatically show the touch keyboard in windowed apps when there's no keyboard attached to your device." in the typing settings and during normal operation, this is what we require. Whenever the user uses the touch input to focus control that accepts text, the touch keyboard is shown. If he uses mouse or keyboard, it stays hidden.

However, on the Login or Lock Screen, no keyboard is shown. A worse one may be manually shown using the Ease of Access settings, but this is not something that the user should need to do on every login. Can we get the same behaviour at the Login Screen as later in the OS?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 15 '18 at 18:45

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Having the keyboard attached will change the behavior of Windows. Unplug the keyboard and reboot.

Alternatively you can try this:

answered Jan 15 '18 at 18:45

HackSlash

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '18 at 02:55

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In addition to the tips listed, you can also enable Tablet Mode. This will bring the on-screen keyboard each time input is needed.

To enable Tablet Mode, open the Notification bar (Win + A) and then click on Tablet Mode.

answered Jan 18 '18 at 02:55

Rene

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 16 '20 at 00:28

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Try to set the following checkbox: Control Panel -> Ease of Access -> Ease of Access Center -> Change sign-in settings [on the left] -> Type without keyboard (On-Screen Keyboard) : at sign-in.

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answered Dec 16 '20 at 00:28

i3v

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 23 '18 at 07:34

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Try this :

Set Tablet mode
Use regedit to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Accessibility\ATs\osk
Check if CopySettingsToLockedDesktop is set to 1, and set it if not
Reboot

answered Jan 23 '18 at 07:34

harrymc

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score -1 · Answer 5 · edited Nov 22 '18 at 07:07

Windows 10 has so many bugs. Sometimes,we have to find a third party software solution. For your situation, I recommend a software named 'Tabtip on-demand', a good software developed by a Swiss developer. Here's an overview from their own site:

Tabtip On-Demand is a great tool for mobile users with Tablet PC which adds the missing keyboard « on-demand » functionality to the WIndows input panel. It is also able to scroll web pages and push input fields into view, thus the text are typing is never hidden behind the keyboard. Tabtip On-Demand also makes the keyboard available by mouse click (optional) on the desktop as well as in the Modern UI (Windows 8 and above).

This is what Tabtip looks like:

I'm using it now to type this answer.

Personally, I think it is useful; you can forget it once you start it. You can always make setting by clicking its icon at right menu corner. It has two modes: Tabtip mode and OSK mode. However, it cannot always pop up in some special text field (for example,text field of Google), then you have to start keyboard manually.

P.S. It costs only $2, a cheap choice.

Here is its official Website. May it help you :) http://www.chessware.ch/tabtipod

Touch Keyboard on Windows 10 Logon Screen

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