Windows 10: [19H1]Touch keyboard button cannot be opened in taskbar after change touch keyboard input...

Steps to repro:
1. Show touch keyboard button in taskbar.
2. Change touch keyboard input method to input under Tent/Pad/Stand/NB.
3. After a while find Touch keyboard button cannot be opened.
BTW : Use mouse and touch both can't open Touch keyboard button.
The issue cannot be recovered after restart/coldboot.
Rest this PC can recovery it.
Could you please help to clairfy this symptom?Thanks!

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Disable Show touch keyboard button

Actually it's not covered in the mentioned thread at all.
It's sort of covered in another thread below but in some other way:

Hide or Show Touch Keyboard Button on Taskbar in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials

This one Check or Uncheck the "Show Touch Keyboard Button" but I want to disable (gray out) this button so impossible to click it or change it.
Please advise.
Cheers.

 

touch screen keyboard


I have an old tablet pc, motion computing C5. When I click the keyboard button in the taskbar,
the touch screen keyboard comes up. Problem is its the handwriting option, not the default qwerty keyboard.
any ideas how to get it back to the default???

I want this when I click the touch screen keyboard button in the taskbar:




But instead I get this as the default:




And it won't remember they last keyboard I used

 

No touch keyboard

This is an ASUS EP121.
Your touch keyboard remembers your selection? Of course that is what I expected as pretty much any windows setting stays where it is until it is changed again. So I guess this bug does not happen on every system. I don't think I'm the only one seeing this bug however, since in one of me google searches about the problem I seem to remember that others have run into this problem as well.

> Turn On Add the standard keyboard layout as a touch keyboard option
> now select the far right option

Yes I see that this gives me a new option ... but so what? I can select it but the next time I open the keyboard up pops the handwritting input panel again.

> Also, try toggling (turning On or Off) Show the touch keyboard or handwriting panel when not in tablet mode

Yes, I tried that a few times, to no effect.

> There is also the Windows On-Screen Keyboard
> Right click on the result and select you preference of Pin to Start or Pin to Taskbar

Ok, I found this keyboard. You said "Right click on the result" so I was right clicking on the keyboard but I didn't get the option to pin it to the taskbar. I almost gave up on it, but that by accident I right clicked on the icon in the taskbar that indicates the keyboard is open, and finally got the pin to taskbar option.

Then I moved the taskbar shortcut to my quick launch bar (which seems a better place for it).

So I guess this is a reasonable workaround, although I still like the old win7 touch keyboard better because it is smaller in height. The Windows On-Screen Keyboard is divided vertically into 6 rows, with the bottom 5 rows filled with keys. All five rows of keys are pretty useful, so no complaints there, but the top row is completely blank! What's with that? If this is for aesthetics, they have a pretty strange sense of it. This blank row just succeeds in obscuring a significant portion of the screen that I'm trying to type into. (Yes, I can shrink the whole keyboard, but smaller keys are more difficult to press accurately). Perhaps this may not seem like a big deal, but my screen is not really that big to begin with. But if the regular touch keyboard is just busted ... I guess the on-screen keyboard is my only option.

Thanks a lot for the help. At least it works well enough it looks like I won't have to revert to windows 7

~Paul