Windows 10: ASUS’ Windows 10 device will come with Apple Touch Bar-like feature

Apple’s latest-generation MacBook Pro comes with Touch Bar that adds a row of multitouch controls to the top of the keyboard. It looks like that Apple’s technology is also coming to Windows 10 devices. ASUS, the Taiwanese multinational computer and phone hardware and electronics company is working on Touch Bar-like feature for its upcoming Windows 10 laptop or notebook.

It appears that the feature is very similar to Apple’s Touch Bar but it would be more advanced thanks to Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system which also allows developers to add support for the feature. It means that the third-party app will be also allowed to access the Touch Pad.

ASUS might be working on this feature for its high-end laptops lineup, and some extensions available in the Microsoft Store suggests that the feature will be called ScreenPad. The unreleased extensions can be installed and used on an ASUS laptop.

While at this point details aren’t very clear, but it appears that the ASUS’ high-end laptops will only come with Touch Bar-like implementation and it would allow users to perform certain tasks.


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A touch-pad on a Windows 10 PC would be useful as it could allow users to perform certain tasks. For example, you’ll be able to change the track, increase volume, access music controls, copy or paste texts. Furthermore, Microsoft’s Office suite will support the feature as well.

While it appears that the feature called ScreenPad can be used on an unreleased ASUS laptop, but it’s likely that the other OEMs could also implement such a feature on their devices. Needless to say, it’s not yet known how advanced this implementation is going to be.

It’s necessary for a device to meet certain hardware requirements in order to support the Windows 10’s ScreenPad feature. By the looks of things, the ASUS device will come with VIDIA GTX970 graphics cards, precision touchpad and touchscreen. It will also Toshiba TC358870XBG Video Bridge IC and ITE8225 MCU.

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Windows 10 for Touch Screen Asus Laptop

I have the same issue. Every search about it returns the same canned troubleshooting steps and I have yet to see anyone say that they have solved the issue.. very frustrating.

Is 'HID compliant touch screen' listed in your device manager under 'Human Interface Devices'?

If so, try right-clicking and selecting 'disable' , then right-click and click 'enable'... Some people have had luck with that but I did not. IF your laptop is an Asus UX501 like me, chances are you will not even see 'HID compliant touch screen' listed
in the device manager unless you click 'view' and 'show hidden devices'.. Details then show that the system doesn't think that the touch screen is connected for some reason.

Asus support is no help - they told me to reinstall the chipset driver package (there is no individual touchscreen driver - it is supposedly part of the chipset package). That didn't work for me, and their next advice was to rollback to 8.1....

I've seen lots of posts about this issue with HP and Dell systems, but very few about asus.. not sure if it's just that there are less asus systems around, or if the problem is only affecting a subset of asus systems.. but hopefully we can make enough noise
that they figure out a solution.

Here is the thread I started:

Touchscreen (touch panel) not working after windows 10 upgrade - asus zenbook ux501jw

 

How to turn off/ disable touch screen feature in Windows 10?

Hi Issac,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community and being part of Windows 10.

I understand your concern about disabling the touch screen feature on Windows 10. We will help you with this issue.

Do lets us know the make and model of your device?

Follow the below steps to disable touch screen feature:

Steps:

• Press Windows + X, click on Control Panel, select
  Category and then select Large or Small icons.
• Click on Pen and touch icon.
• Click on Touch tab.
• Uncheck the checkbox next to Use your finger as an input device.
• Click Apply and Ok.

Hope it helps. Get back to us for further assistance on this issue, we will be happy to help you.