Disable On Screen Keyboard in Windows 7

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?

Jens

Posted 2012-02-07T09:04:50.953

Reputation: 629

I would look in device manager for a HID keyboard you can disable – Moab – 2012-02-07T10:19:29.390

Thanks Moab for the tip. Unfortunately, there is none. Any HID I disable disables the touch interface. – Jens – 2012-02-07T10:24:59.310

Did you look under keyboards?, be sure to show hidden devices also. – Moab – 2012-02-07T10:31:16.113

Answers

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

Jens

Posted 2012-02-07T09:04:50.953

Reputation: 629

2I will, but it won't let me until the day after tomorrow. =) – Jens – 2012-02-07T11:33:44.297

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

ProDigit

Posted 2012-02-07T09:04:50.953

Reputation: 31

-5

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

networkjoe

Posted 2012-02-07T09:04:50.953

Reputation: 1

3While this may actually work, you are renaming a Windows file. If it comes with Windows, generally you shouldn't be renaming it. Especially given in situations where the users keyboard may be broken, and they are on the login screen, they can use the OSK to actually log into the machine. Removing functionality for the sake of solving a simple option issue isn't really a good solution. – zackrspv – 2012-02-08T19:46:56.533