Prevent software and browsers from recognizing my laptop as tablet

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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?

BeemerGuy

Posted 2015-03-10T08:33:13.863

Reputation: 85

1Among your settings, did you disable: (1) "Use your finger as an input device" in "Pen and Touch", (2) The service "Tablet PC Input" in system Services, (3) Use regedit to set in "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wisp\Touch]" the TouchGate item to 0. – harrymc – 2015-03-12T16:39:37.147

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What do your browser headers have to say? Does Modernizr detect it as a touch capable device? Also, try setting Enable touch events to Disabled. You can do this by following this link: chrome://flags/#touch-events

– Vinayak – 2015-03-13T19:53:41.940

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In addition to what @harrymc wrote, try disabling any touch screen HID devices from the Device Manager.

– Vinayak – 2015-03-13T20:44:01.433

Answers

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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

Vinayak

Posted 2015-03-10T08:33:13.863

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