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I have a Gateway ZX6971 all in one touch screen. I recently downloaded the windows 8 release preview and i cant find anyway to get my touch screen capabilities working again. Is there a way to fix this problem? I tried reintalling the Card Reader Driver and try to open some touch programs in capability mode. Is there anything I can do to do my touch screen back? It worked fine in Windows 7. Any help or advice would be great! Thank you!
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Hi ssackfield88,
This issue may be a display driver issue. I checked Gateway's website for available drivers for the ZX6971 and there are no Windows 8 drivers. Use the contact us link here to see when or if drivers will be available to support Windows 8 on your computer.
Hi all,
I've been told that Windows 8 (Retail) supports Touch Screen with 5-Points Digitizers and up.
Unfortunately most systems manufactured before 2012, have 2-Points Digitizers, hence Windows 8 will not recognise them as having Touch capabilities.
Sorry, but this is not true.
While our touchscreens will not be as effective or "fancy" as newer touchscreens - they will indeed work just as well as they did on Window 7 and the earlier versions of Windows 8. Touch, scroll, pinch-to-zoom, and the like will all still work.
New computers shipping out may have the need to have the 5-points in order for them to be labeled as "touch compatible" for Windows 8 - but Microsoft won't shut down existing support.
We won't be able to multi-touch for effective onscreen typing - but our touchscreens will work. It is a driver problem - not a hardware problem.
Remember - the majority of us had working touchscreens in earlier Windows 8 versions.
I had the same problem when I loaded windows 8 no more touch screen I unloaded it and put windows 7 back on then reversed the charges for windows 8 on my charge card for selling us faulty software if everyone does this they will fix the problem right away
I have the same computer, and my touch worked fine with w7. I was just surfing trying to resolve this matter. I thought I might have some luck when I ran across your post. I called gateway by way of India and had no luck. but I was instructed by Microsoft to keep checking the driver updates on the website. good luck, and spread the love.
I am going to try "Driver Genius" and upgrade the Intel chipset drivers. It looks like the ones embedded within Windows 8 are from 2006?
