On-Screen keyboard icon no longer pops up when touch text box

Anonymous
2012-10-29T10:06:23+00:00

original title: On-Screen keyboard help.

Hello,

I am a Windows 7 Power user. I recently upgraded my Acer Iconia Tab w500 from Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 8 Pro. The product works great however previously in Windows 7 whenever in desktop or anywhere that requires a text input, when I click on the text box, a keyboard icon will popup and this will allow me to click it to launch the on screen keyboard, However after the upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, this icon does not appear anymore and I cannot find the settings anywhere to request it to launch OSK on text box. I can however, manually launch it from the taskbar. Please advise.

* OSK auto launches when in metro mode. (e.g.) swipe in from left and click Search. When the text box appears and I click it, OSK launches automatically.

I am unsure if this is a bug in Windows 8 Pro. However I have verified by doing a clean install on Windows 8 too and it has the same issue.

My tablet has 4 points of input.

EDIT: The specific or equivalent program I am talking about is:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Using-the-writing-pad-and-touch-keyboard-in-Tablet-PC-Input-Panel

Tablet PC Input Panel

Thanks, Nic

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-11-22T04:43:45+00:00

    Kia~

    It`s not an oversight.

    you have an profound insight!

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-20T19:47:25+00:00

    It's not an oversight, they are forcing us into the Metro interface and punishing us for not using it.  It's called "social engineering" and it forces us to act in a way, and that which is most profitable for M$.

    Stay in Metro, very close to the app store, and you get this little reward.  Live in the "past" (the desktop) and you get crippled features.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-10-26T11:54:13+00:00

    Just got a surface pro, can't believe I have to manually activate the keyboard in desktop mode. Seems like such a silly oversight.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-10-22T05:52:51+00:00

    Seriously Joe? You are defending a defective system by saying you can hack it to the way you want it and that is the excuse for the lame half baked interface?  Seriously?!

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