How to Disable Touch Screen on Windows 10

This Itechguide teaches you how to disable touch screen on Windows 10. The guide covers steps for 2 methods to disable touch screen on Windows 10.

Option 1: Disable Touch Screen from Device Manager

• Right-click Windows 10 Start menu and select Device Manager.

• When Device Manager opens, expand the Human Interface Devices category. To expand the category, click the arrow beside it.

• With the Human Interface Devices category expands, locate and right-click HID-compliant touch screen.
• Then, to disable touch-screen, from the displayed options, click Disable device. You will receive a disable confirmation pop-up.

• Finally, on the confirmation pop-up window, click Yes.

• Whenever you want to re-enable touch screen, right-click HID-compliant touch screen and select Enable Device.

• Device Manager will refresh. The device is now enabled.

Option 2: Disable Touch Screen with PowerShell

• Type powershell in the Windows 10 search box. Then, beneath Windows PowerShell, click Run as Administrator.

• If you receive a User Account Control confirmation prompt, click Yes.
• Then, to disable touch screen, on the PowerShell prompt, type the command below and press enter.

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

• The command will execute and return to the PowerShell command prompt.

• To confirm that the command disabled touch screen, open Device Manager. Then expand Human Interface Devices category. HID-compliant touch screen (Touch screen device driver) will have an arrow pointing downwards – this confirms that the device is disabled.

• To enable touch screen with PowerShell, type this command and press enter.

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

• The command will run and return to the PowerShell prompt.

• If you are curious to see whether the last command enabled your touch screen device driver, open Device Manager.
• Then, expand Human Interface Devices category. The arrow pointing downwards beside HID-compliant touch screen will no longer be there – confirming that the device is now enabled and your touch screen is enabled.

It is very easy to disable touch screen on Windows 10!

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