Windows 8 disable touch keyboard icon

Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Devlin Sco Microsoft Agent. Hi M, Apparently, there's no option to hide or disable the button for switching the layout of the Touch keyboard. Click the Start button. Type Turn system icons on or off and then press Enter. Set the switch for Touch keyboard to Off. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

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Do you know about this? Krunal Mevada. Thanks for the tip! Andrei Scripinciuc. Way to go Dell! I haven't had issues with this on the Surface, either, when the keyboard is out. In fact, if I have any problem, it's the opposite problem: the device becomes convinced the keyboard is available and won't raise the touch keyboard until I detach and reattach the cover.

I don't know if it's something that the Surface and Naveed reports the Dell XPS does right or something your Lenovo does wrong, I don't have enough data to judge. I have the opposite problem. I have and my customers have Windows 8 tablets Surface where the on-screen keyboard works like a charm in the Metro interface - but flat out fails to automatically display on text-field focus on the desktop.

I spent a whole weekend trying to figure out why Win8 wouldn't recognize the keyboard on my desktop. The odd thing was, the keyboard worked on the login screen so I could type my password.

Just stopped working when it got to the desktop. Maybe I'll try to install it again this weekend. I wondered at the time if there was some setting that caused this to happen.

Perhaps it's where this setting is changed? It looks more of a driver issue to me. I use SurfacePro, the touch keyboard only shows when focus on a input field and when the TouchCover is folded back or detached. Paul Chen. That on-screen keyboard should recognize if the input field is for a password. For example, when you're projecting your screen to another large-screen monitor and encounter an HTML password field, the keyboard should pop up for use, but should not show the keys being pressed, so that anyone else looking at the other monitor would not know what you typed.

Peter W. Salman Quazi.