Couple of months back, my laptop was giving me the annoying 'ghost touch' problem with my touchscreen, and not knowing how to fix it, I disabled my touchscreen via device manager.
Hi. The cursor flies around opening/closing programs, etc. I see these weird 'bubbles' at top of screen all along at points where icons are. Like someone's touching tablet. Well-known phenomenon -- and NOT a virus.
Months ago i stumbled on a fix after talking it through here: google result Disabling to say the least.. Restart helps but only for so long. I can't recall which method I applied to fix it, but it went away one day. Now it's back after what? I dunno. I don't use this as a flex lappy. There was a big Windows 10 update the other day..
I meant I talked it through a bit in Metafilter, sorry. The google link above is just a typical starting point: some of those videos, etc., don't work for me. Or maybe a bunch of things consequentially end up fixing it before. Dell Inspiron 11 (3000 series) 3147. posted by noelpratt2nd at 7:30 AM on October 18, 2016
Have you reinstalled a completely clean operating system in order to remove all traces of what the scam 'tech support' company put on your machine, as advised in the answers to your previous question about this issue? posted by bcwinters at 7:41 AM on October 18, 2016
Oh yes, done. Hard to even restart cuz cursor won't sit still. At this moment things are fine, waiting for the craziness again..then have to actually shut down, boot back up. posted by noelpratt2nd at 8:03 AM on October 18, 2016
Get lens wipes and wipe the screen of any stains and remove any possible moisture. That's what usually activates the touch screen posted by I-baLL at 9:16 AM on October 18, 2016
I don't have a solution, but if you can't use the cursor and need to reboot you can do the following: Hit: Windows Key + R (opens the run dialog) Type: shutdown /r /t 0 (/r = reboot, /t 0 = wait zero time until reboot) Hit: Enter (runs the command) posted by gregr at 9:22 AM on October 18, 2016 [2 favorites]
I disabled the driver for the touch screen on a machine that did this to me. You lose the touch screen entirely, of course, but the mouse/touchpad worked fine after that. posted by Eddie Mars at 11:25 AM on October 18, 2016
I go to Human Interface Devices or something under Dev Mgr, but there's nothing on right-click about disabling touch. So far today -- amazing, it's gone away. Maybe just posssssibly it was some humidity Inspiron is overly sensitive to when I came down to visit a friend in the country by the river. But today is dry.. posted by noelpratt2nd at 11:53 AM on October 18, 2016
Awww..it came back! Gotta find a fix. That reset/reinstall didn't do the trick months ago. posted by noelpratt2nd at 4:57 AM on October 19, 2016
One attempted fix that might have been the one that ultimately work months ago (after the reinstall) had something to do w/ a place you go and you change a number..as in from 3 to 4. Can't recall where that is. posted by noelpratt2nd at 6:38 AM on October 19, 2016
I think I fixed it! I had uninstalled the touchscreen driver, then of course it reinstalls w/ the restart -- but what I really needed to do was disable it (because evidently it reinstalls as enabled). Heck, I don't even use the touchscreen. Thanks, Eddie Mars. And everyone. posted by noelpratt2nd at 1:08 PM on October 19, 2016
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After a recent Lenovo driver update (I think), the ghost has returned even without an enabled touchscreen, so I'd rather have my touchscreen reinstalled, at least so I can fix the ghost touch problem by calibrating my touchscreen.
However, there doesn't seem to be any way to do this via device manager any longer. There are several copies of the same device (HID-compliant touchscreen) in device manager, some of which are enabled and some of which are disabled. And the disabled ones say 'Currently, this hardware device isn't connected to the computer (Code 45)', instead of having an 'Enable' button.
Is there any way I can re-enable my touchscreen? Exodus addons for kodi 18 leiaia. I need to re-calibrate it to fix the ghost touch once and for all -- plus, even my pen (which I really need) hasn't been working right since I disabled it.
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Open Device Manager, click Action – Scan for hardware changes.
Besides, you can right click HID-compliant touch screen and select Update Driver Software and check the result. Download game geometry dash.
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Open Device Manager and click on 'View' -> 'Show disabled devices'. Now go to 'HID-compliant', re-enable your Touchscreen device.
This should do the trick.
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After a recent Lenovo driver update (I think), the ghost has returned even without an enabled touchscreen, so I'd rather have my touchscreen reinstalled, at least so I can fix the ghost touch problem by calibrating my touchscreen.
However, there doesn't seem to be any way to do this via device manager any longer. There are several copies of the same device (HID-compliant touchscreen) in device manager, some of which are enabled and some of which are disabled. And the disabled ones say 'Currently, this hardware device isn't connected to the computer (Code 45)', instead of having an 'Enable' button.
Is there any way I can re-enable my touchscreen? I need to re-calibrate it to fix the ghost touch once and for all -- plus, even my pen (which I really need) hasn't been working right since I disabled it.
horsehorse
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Open Device Manager, click Action – Scan for hardware changes.
Besides, you can right click HID-compliant touch screen and select Update Driver Software and check the result.
eve wangeve wang
Open Device Manager and click on 'View' -> 'Show disabled devices'. Now go to 'HID-compliant', re-enable your Touchscreen device.
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This should do the trick.
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