Disable On Screen Keyboard in Windows 7

Question

I run Windows Embedded Standard 7 with a multi touch screen (running on the UPDD driver 4.01.10). The system is running an application in kiosk mode with no need for any other input device.

The On Screen Keyboard is disabled in the Ease of Access center (and is not shown initially), but whenever a user touches the screen, a kind of "On Screen Keyboard Quickstart Button" appears at the left side of the screen, looking like this:

Strange button

The user can use this to slide in the On Screen Keyboard. Is there a way to disable that?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '12 at 11:10

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I've found that one can configure this behaviour at "Control Panel" -> "Tablet PC Settings" -> "Other" -> "Input Panel Settings" -> "Opening".

answered Feb 07 '12 at 11:10

Jens

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 15 '12 at 19:53

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Go to Options (click the Options button on the keyboard)
In the window there's the link to enabling/disabling the keyboard at startup.
Uncheck Use On-screen Keyboard
Reboot computer

edited Jun 15 '12 at 19:53

slhck

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answered Jun 15 '12 at 15:49

ProDigit

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score -5 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 10 '12 at 10:01

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I would try deleting (or renaming to be safe) the On Screen Keyboard (osk.exe) file found at c:\windows\system32\osk.exe

edited Feb 10 '12 at 10:01

soandos

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answered Feb 07 '12 at 22:29

networkjoe

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Disable On Screen Keyboard in Windows 7

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