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
    2015-02-11T05:37:56+00:00

    I wouldn't mind ditching Windows for Android for my portable rig. Have a Note Pro 12.2 I like quite a bit. If someone would make a decent integrated keyboard with a trackpad,  it would be perfect for most things I do. 

    http://www.amazon.com/Ultrathin-Wireless-Bluetooth-Programmable-Rechargeable/dp/B00M32PBXO/ref=sr\_1\_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1423610384&sr=1-2&keywords=%2Bbluetooth+keyboard+with+touchpad

    $28 shipping included today.

    Appreciate the link,  but that's not an integrated solution. That's carrying around extra stuff you have to stow away. Docks for Windows tablets have trackpads. The Transformer series all has laptop like docks. Surface and Venues have keyboards with trackpads. And usable with your thumbs while you're typing. Something the keyboards with the sides don't have.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-02-10T23:24:15+00:00

    I wouldn't mind ditching Windows for Android for my portable rig. Have a Note Pro 12.2 I like quite a bit. If someone would make a decent integrated keyboard with a trackpad,  it would be perfect for most things I do. 

    http://www.amazon.com/Ultrathin-Wireless-Bluetooth-Programmable-Rechargeable/dp/B00M32PBXO/ref=sr\_1\_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1423610384&sr=1-2&keywords=%2Bbluetooth+keyboard+with+touchpad

    $28 shipping included today.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-02-10T03:02:19+00:00

    I wouldn't mind ditching Windows for Android for my portable rig. Have a Note Pro 12.2 I like quite a bit. If someone would make a decent integrated keyboard with a trackpad,  it would be perfect for most things I do.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-02-10T02:37:23+00:00

    On my Yoga 2 hybrid auto popup worked great until I installed Classic Shell so I could have a good program interface.

    With the Metro **** disabled so is the auto keyboard.

    Micro$haft strikes again.

    A friend bought me the Windows Yoga 2, at $100+more instead of the android version.

    Wish they'd asked first.

    Time to wipe this and flash Android 5 so I can do some work.

    Wonderful hardware, crippled by a horrible GUI.

    Reminds me of OSX and IOS products.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-10-27T15:42:56+00:00

    Thank you for this Nic.Using Autoit, and the code below, I was able to get the keyboard to popup automatically on a Windows 7 machine whenever a user clicks/presses on an input box. This worked brilliantly :)

    While 1
$cursor = MouseGetCursor()
If $cursor = 5 Then ShellExecute('"C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ink\TabTip.exe"')
Sleep(750)
WEnd

    Thought that was standard in win 7 tablet?

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