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My laptop is a Dell XPS L502X. I no longer care that it's a tablet PC.

So, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on it and tried to the best of my abilities to disable anything that makes it a tablet PC.

However, sometimes when I touch the display with my fingers, it recognizes it as a click, yet I specifically disabled that input.

Secondly, Chrome somehow still thinks it's a tablet and displays websites as if they are touch-enabled, such as GMail and some news sites.

What is the complete checklist to disable these behaviors?

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This answers the second part of the question: How to prevent web browsers from recognizing a laptop as a touch enabled device?

Google Chrome

  1. Visit the internal Flags page and set Enable touch events to Disabled.

    chrome://flags/#touch-events

  2. Restart Google Chrome.

Firefox

  1. Enter about:config in the address bar, click I'll be careful, I promise!

  2. Enter dom.w3c_touch_events.enabled in the search bar and change the preference value to 0 for disabled.

  3. Restart Firefox.

Additionally, you can also test whether or not Modernizr detects your browser as touch capable by visiting this link: Online Test for Browser Touch Capability

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