{"id":24,"date":"2013-12-06T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2013-12-06T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T15:45:00","slug":"getting-rid-of-windows-8-1-touch-screen-popups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Getting Rid of Windows 8.1 Touch Screen Popups"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, this is just a quick tech tip so I don’t lose track of this in the future. If you’re using Windows 8.1, you may start seeing “helpful” pop-ups explaining new ways of using the OS. Designed to assist users in transitioning to the wonders of touch-screen bliss, they are nothing more than just plain bothersome if you do not have a touch-screen, especially since they don’t go away until you do what the screen asks.<\/p>\n

In theory you can use your mouse to perform whatever task is being shown, but for me that has proven problematic – partly because I’m running Windows inside a VM I guess.<\/p>\n

To kill these there are a couple of things you can do:<\/p>\n

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  1. Disable the touchscreen device in the device manager. If you don’t have one, it’s useless anyway. Just open up the device manager, find the touch-screen, right click on it, and select “disable”.\u00a0Why does Windows add a touch-screen device\u00a0<\/span>when there isn’t one? Who knows.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Run a command prompt as administrator, then execute the following command:\n

    reg add HKCUSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindowsEdgeUI \/v DisableHelpStick \/t reg_dword \/d 1 \/f<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s all there is to it. Simple fix, but there’s no way I’d remember it next time I rebuild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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