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Remove "Touch Keyboard" toolbar

Anonym vor 11 Jahren • aktualisiert vor 10 Jahren • 6

Windows 8.x doesn't allow users to permanently remove the "Touch Keyboard" toolbar from the taskbar: on every reboot it reappears. Even when the corresponding service is set to disabled, the toolbar can reappear after one or more reboots.


A function to disable the toolbar with the start of 7+ would be ideal.

Anonym vor 11 Jahren

I don't have this problem at all.

Anonym vor 11 Jahren
Meaning...? So you are able to disable the toolbar permanently? If so, how?
Anonym vor 10 Jahren
Ok, the only thing I could do about it was to take ownership of and then remove the file "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ink\TipBand.dll". Afterwards, you can still use the touch keyboard if you want.
Anonym vor 10 Jahren
Try to unregister that file with regsvr32 tool
Anonym vor 10 Jahren
The issue with the touch keyboard repeatedly coming back, despite being disabled, is well documented (Search Google, for example.) The best fix I've found is to disable all taskbar toolbars with group policy. It makes the touch keyboard toolbar disappear, but it also means that any other toolbars are not possible.

Rolling a fix for this into 7+ttt would be awesome.
Anonym vor 10 Jahren
On my Win8.1 computer, all I had to do was right-click the taskbar, click Toolbars and de-select Touch Keyboard. The Touch Keyboard disappeared and never returned.

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