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Additional note. I've also disabled the touch keyboard in "Services" but that does not stop the touch keyboard toolbar from being reselected in the Taskbar toolbars.

Thank you Andrew, but that didn't work here. In 8.1, msconfig/startup tab is blank and tells you to use the task manager. So I went to the task manager and it doesn't list the touch keyboard. Nothing to unselect. In 8.1 the touch keyboard is part of the control panel's accessibility tools. It...

Windows 8.1 64 Recently, the touch keyboard toolbar icon appears on the Taskbar every time I turn on the laptop. That was not the case in the past. I've unselected that toolbar, which makes its icon dissappear, but the next time I open the laptop, there it is again. How do I permanently...

Thank you for replying. OK, I disabled the touch pad tapping. It will take some time for me to know if this resolves the problem because it doesn't happen all the time. But, even if it solves it, is there another option because I've gotten very used to double tapping on the Touch pad as a...

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I don't know if this is normal but I find it annoying. Using the synaptic touch pad on a Windows 8.1 laptop, I find that if the cursor lingers over an icon or shortcut for a second or so, it sometimes acts as if I had clicked on it. I don't think it is the touch pad sensitivity setting. Is there...

When the laptop screen dims (power options) touching the keyboard or the touch pad does not restore the display. How to fix?

New Windows 7/8/8.1 updates spy on you just like Windows 10

Windows 10 presents a number of privacy and reporting issues that many users object to. I've read that some of these potentially spying improvements were also added to Windows 8.1 in the critical updates. Is there a list of these new privacy defeating improvements downloaded into 8.1 that I...

Microsoft keeps pushing Windows 10 even after the "critical updates" that push it are uninstalled and hidden. They keep coming up with new ones! Is there a list of all known critical updates to uninstall to get rid of the windows 10 update offer?

I would like to use rsync to sync my android phone with my windows 8.1 pc. Can rsync run in Windows? Thank you.

There are times when the Touchscreen is a problem for me. Is there a way to turn the Touchscreen off in a Windows 8.1 Toshiba laptop?

It was the latest quicken update. I restored the quicken program folder from a recent backup and the crashes went away.

When I try to load my quicken data file into my quicken deluxe 2014 (installed in Windows 8.1) it crashes repeatedly and I get an error message that says "QuickenWindow has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you...

Thank you. I was not doubting you. That's why I didn't update to Windows 10. Just wanted to know where to look and what files to delete.