Annoying pop-up in Windows 8

[hfg]

I get an annoying pop-up help screen showing how to "Switch between apps" by swiping the touch screen ... it will not go away! I obviously do not have a touch screen on my Mac to "Swipe from the edge ...", so the only thing I have found to clear the message is to briefly resize the window it is running in.

Does anyone know how to shut this off???

This is how it looks:

 

[Quackers]

There's a setting somewhere that needs changing. Have a look in the device manager in Windows for a touch screen and disable it.
I think it's in Human Interface Devices and it's called HID-compliant touch screen.

 

[hfg]

Found it ... disabled it ... and I haven't seen the annoying pop-up since.

I think that may have fixed it!

Thank you for the information.


-howard

 

[lucy1]

hi i am facing same problem please explain it how to disable this function?

 

[Quackers]

hfg, glad to hear it. It's a pain isn't it?

lucy1, in windows device manager look under Human Interface Devices for the HID-compliant touch screen entry.
Right-click on it and select disable. Confirm when asked.

 

[chrfr]

For some reason VMWare Fusion sets up Windows 8 as touch enabled. You can disable the capability by adding the following to the vmx file inside your Virtual Machines folder.

touchscreen.vusb.present = "FALSE"

 

[hfg]

For some reason VMWare Fusion sets up Windows 8 as touch enabled. You can disable the capability by adding the following to the vmx file inside your Virtual Machines folder.

touchscreen.vusb.present = "FALSE"

Yeah ... that is probably the source of the problem. I wonder why VMware did that as no Mac has a touchscreen display.

FYI: using the "disable" described above continues to work without great without ever seeing that message pop-up. It also prevents the toolbar "On Screen Keyboard" selection from being re-enabled occasionally.