Solved Deactivate Charms Bar on Touch Screen

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RogerFederer

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Hey you all,

I googled and searched this forum for information on the title topic, but none of the advice could help me out.

My problem is not the charms bar, that activates when touching the mouse (touch) pad, but the same charms bar, that appears when touching the screen on my tablet.

Does anyone have an answer to that? You can disabuse me and show me a website or a forum link but after 4 hours of research I am done for now. :mad:

I would be very thankful for your advice!

Best regards,

Roger
 
Is it activating when you don't want it to? usually it takes a pretty deliberate action to activate the charms bar. that being said, it's where the settings for the Metro apps reside, so it might not be good to completely disable it.
 
Hello Roger, and welcome to Eight Forums.

If you like, you could use the tutorial below to disable the Charms bar hint to help prevent accidentally opening it every time you go near it on a touchscreen.

In addition, if you are having the same issue with Switcher, then the tutorial below can help show how to disable the top left hot corner for this.


Hope this helps, :)
Shawn
 
Hi you guys,

I don't want it to move, because it will be used for patients in a hospital for the purpose of evaluation. Which means they should not be able to move around on the computer (which they will be with charms bar activated).

With Windows-button + C I should still be able to activate it, but I don't want it to be turned on by finger movements on the screen.

@ Shawn: I've already tried these and unfortunately they only deactivate the charms bar when touching the mouse pad (not when touching the screen).

Greetings and thank you so much for your help!

Roger
 
What will it be used for? If users aren't supposed to switch apps, then wouldn't it be easier to use an OS designed for kiosk use?
 
RogerFederer said:
Hi you guys,

I don't want it to move, because it will be used for patients in a hospital for the purpose of evaluation. Which means they should not be able to move around on the computer (which they will be with charms bar activated).

With Windows-button + C I should still be able to activate it, but I don't want it to be turned on by finger movements on the screen.

@ Shawn: I've already tried these and unfortunately they only deactivate the charms bar when touching the mouse pad (not when touching the screen).

Greetings and thank you so much for your help!

Roger
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Odd, this one should disable the Charms bar hint on touch as well.

The one below is for the touchpad instead.
 
Hi you guys,

@ FuturDreamz: Patients in a hospital will be given a tablet PC (with Win 8 installed) and they will have to answer a survey. During this process they should of course not be able open other apps or "move around" on the tablets. Unfortunately I am not that much of a computer pro and do not know what "kiosk mode" means. I'd be happy if you could explain this to me in a few sentences or could send me a link with an explanation instead, if that's easier. Thanks!

@ Brink/Shawn: I am sorry, I misread your first post. So far I've only tried the mouse-pad option and tomorrow I will also try out the other one with charms bar touch screen deactivation as well! Thanks and sorry, that you had to post this twice.

Have a nice weekend you guys,

Roger
 
Hey all!

@ Shawn: Unfortunately it didn't work. :( Maybe I got something wrong? The .reg-file was added to the registry but what does "5. Click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK when prompted." mean?

@ dirtyvu: This just says how to install a guest account. I already did that. But the guest shouldn't be able to move around on C: ! If you say: "You just have to restrict the rights for a guest, so that he cannot gain access e.g. to C:." then I have to reply: "Already tried this one." ;) Problem: If I restrict the rights on C:, I cannot launch the only program the guest (hospital patient) needs to work with ... Therefore I am trying to only make (the) one survey application the patient/guest needs to see visible and restrict his/her scope of action within this application as much as possible. Ergo: Deactivating the charms bar on touch screen will do most of the job.

Thanks for your helf so far and have a nice week!

Roger
 
RogerFederer said:
Hey all!

@ Shawn: Unfortunately it didn't work. :( Maybe I got something wrong? The .reg-file was added to the registry but what does "5. Click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK when prompted." mean?

@ dirtyvu: This just says how to install a guest account. I already did that. But the guest shouldn't be able to move around on C: ! If you say: "You just have to restrict the rights for a guest, so that he cannot gain access e.g. to C:." then I have to reply: "Already tried this one." ;) Problem: If I restrict the rights on C:, I cannot launch the only program the guest (hospital patient) needs to work with ... Therefore I am trying to only make (the) one survey application the patient/guest needs to see visible and restrict his/her scope of action within this application as much as possible. Ergo: Deactivating the charms bar on touch screen will do most of the job.

Thanks for your helf so far and have a nice week!

Roger
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Rodger,

It just means that after you double click on the .reg file to merge it, you will be prompted for approval. Those are just what you need to click on in these prompts (if prompted) to fully approve the merge for it to work. :)

Where you not prompted when you merged the .reg file?

If not, then when you right click on the .reg file, do you have a Merge option in the context menu?
 
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Dear Shawn,

sorry, English is not my native language, because of that I still have problems understanding, especially because the Win8 menu in my native language of course is slightly different. ;)

It all worked as you've described. Unfortunately, as soon as I touch the right area of the screen, charms bar "slides" in.

Is there any other possibility?

Do you know an alternative way to only show a tablet user the window he/she should see (because me - the admin - only wants him/her to give him/her a limited view to complete a survey)?

Thanks!

Roger
 
No problem Rodger.

On a tablet, if you swipe inward (even a tiny bit) from the right edge it opens the Charms bar. I don't know of anything to stop this.

This wouldn't be the same thing that gets disabled with the Charms bar hint corners. :(
 
are you disabling the Windows key as well? they'll be able to get to the Start screen with the keyboard.
 
the windows button is the windows key. you could try using a key remapper like keytweak.
 
in my keytweak, you can map the windows key. for one of my old IBM Model M keyboards (which don't have Windows keys), I have the left windows key mapped to 59 and the right windows key mapped to 125.
 
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