Comments on: 2 Ways To Disable Touch screen In Windows 10

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 22:45:00 +0000

This worked for me thank you so much sir

By: SSS

SSS — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:22:58 +0000

Both have been done on a Lenovo and after Windows updates I am back to square one, it’s re-enabled in Device Manager which seems to overrule the registry.

By: Jules Lapprand

Jules Lapprand — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 20:47:17 +0000

I have followed the steps to permanently disable the touchscreen in the registry editor, but the phantom screen clicks come up outside of windows. Every time I turn on the computer or restart it, before logging in to windows, I have “phantom touches” all over the place.

This is especially bad when the computer is performing necessary updates. The phantom clicks go crazy, and I feel it seriously slows down Windows updates. Full control comes back when I manage to log back in to Windows.

I am now trying to put all values in the “Touch” folder of the registry editor under “Wisp” to zero, not just “Touchgate.” I will see if that makes a difference.

By: Sean Pettit

Sean Pettit — Tue, 26 May 2020 07:42:55 +0000

This will get the job done via elevated PowerShell:

Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object {$_.FriendlyName -like ‘*touch screen*’} | Disable-PnpDevice -Confirm:$false

By: Boris Ashman

Boris Ashman — Sat, 23 May 2020 01:44:27 +0000

You can disable TouchScreen via Device Manager – which helps. But it will be restored after reboot, and if you have cracked touch screen, it is not even guranteed you could get to device manager with all these phantom screen click produced by the cracks.

To disable it permanently, you’d have to edit Windows Registry via regedit. Thankfully, I found the the final solution here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/permanently-disable-touchscreen-in-windows-10/35c516b0-21c1-4671-8782-530ec118473d?tm=1520408734977):

1. Open regedit
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wisp\Touch
3. Create a new DWORD (32 bit) with the name TouchGate
4. Doubleclik on the newly ceated DWORD and make sure it has the value 0
(0 = touch disabled, 1 = touch enabled)

After rebooting the touch functionality should be disabled permanently and therefore your problem solved