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
    2014-10-27T15:22:32+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

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-04-24T00:32:28+00:00

    Go to the start screen, search osk and there should be only one result. Right click on it (or long tap if using a touchscreen) and press Pin to Taskbar. Go back to the desktop and press the icon on the taskbar that looks like a keyboard in front of a monitor. Voila!

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-16T05:19:33+00:00

    Hi, I followed your directions and it place the keyboard back on my task bar however, when I touch it with my pen or finger nothing happens. Please help me. 

    Thank you

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-21T19:20:23+00:00

    You would think this would be easy... Auto show touch keyboard on/off...

     

    You can put the OSK in your Startup and Minimize it.  No possibility of TK then.   <eg>

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-03-21T15:27:06+00:00

    You would think this would be easy... Auto show touch keyboard on/off...

    Microsoft needs to make this an option. Tablets need auto pop and hybrids may want to disable it.

    Should be able to right click the touch keyboard icon in taskbar and adjust popup/show settings right there.  

    Could have sworn I changed a 1 to a 0 in the registry somewhere that disabled it before I upgraded to 8.1...

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