[SOLVED] Working touch-screen as secondary monitors on Windows 11

Anonymous
2022-02-11T18:27:25+00:00

I have recently a second touch-screen monitor to use with my PC. It works perfectly except for the fact that touch does not work if it is set up as the second display. For Windows 10 I have to use "Table PC Settings" to assign touch input to secondary monitor. On Windows 11 I cannot find any tools like this. So the touch input is always triggering primary monitor.

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Anonymous
2022-03-08T21:44:12+00:00

Hello Mr Adrian,

In the control panel, change the icons to large icons

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Then you will be able to see the "Tablet PC" icon, click it.

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From there you seem to be familiar with how to do set it up, but will go over the next couple steps just in case you dont.

Click "Setup"

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Next, there will be a dialog box to asking if you want the app to make changes, click "yes"

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Finally, all your screens should turn white with a this text in the middle of the primary screen "Tap this screen with a single finger to identify it as the touch screen. If this is not the table PC screen, Press Enter to move to the next screen".

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Press Enter until you get to the monitor you want to use as a touch screen. NOTE: I am not sure if you can use more than one touch screen with Windows 11... yet.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-10-17T14:49:16+00:00

    I'm going to be blunt here. This is just stupid! You can setup 20 touch screen monitors without entering a single credential, but you need admin rights to match the touch sensors to the correct monitors. This is one of those things Microsoft just needs to fix. I can think of plenty of security reasons to need admin rights to attach a new touch monitor, but the only reason I can imagine for requiring admin rights to configure them is that the configuration is system wide, in which case, they should be able to move that to a user specific config. Sure it sucks if every user has to configure it when they first login, but if it's persistent, it's better than needing IT to do it. Some IT departments are backlogged 3 weeks or more.

    I use multiple touchscreens for work since my normal tasks equate to playing 5 simultaneous games of cookie clicker all day every day and I would like to have use of my hands when I'm 60.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-17T14:38:54+00:00

    When you use the control panel and tablet pc settings it matches the touch sensor to the monitor. The system doesn't really care which monitor is your primary. You should be able to switch that and rearrange the monitors without affecting your touch capability.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-07T15:44:41+00:00

    Thank you so much for this solution!

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