The touchscreen on your device can get really handy, especially on hand-held devices like tablets and laptops. Some may argue that your fingerprint and smudges will ruin your screen. But it can be easily fixed with a simple wipe.

If your device comes with a touchscreen, the touch feature is turned on by default. But if that’s not the case, you may enable or disable it manually.

How to Enable or Disable Touchscreen On Windows

To enable or disable touchscreen on Windows, go through the methods mentioned below:

Enable-touchscreen

To enable touchscreen on windows using the task manager, follow these steps:

Now you may enjoy the convenience of a touchscreen on Windows.

And to disable the touchscreen,

regedit-run

Now the touchscreen will no longer respond to touches.

Through Registry Editor

you may also utilize the registry editor to enable or disable the touchscreen.

Via Windows Terminal (Admin)

Windows Terminal is a multi-tab command-line tool from Microsoft. It is the successor to the Command Prompt and PowerShell.

Create-DWORD

you may also enable or disable touchscreen on windows using the Windows Terminal with admin rights.

Enter the following command:

Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object {$_.FriendlyName -like ‘touch screen'} | Enable-PnpDevice -Confirm:$false

Modify-touchgate

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