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I'm currently visiting my family and they got a new all-in-one computer for Christmas. It's nice--touch screen, nice memory space, etc.--but now there's an issue. My brother's trying to play a game and it's defaulting to touch screen controls. Anybody know how to turn that off? I'm trying to find a way, but I don't know enough about touch screen computers to do anything.
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I'm assuming they have a mouse or other input device hooked up that they want to use for gaming instead of the touchscreen. Try going into the BIOS settings (F8 during boot does it for most machines) - if it's anything like my laptop, there should be a control for the built-in input device that can be set to "disable if mouse plugged in". Of course, they'd need to re-enable the touchscreen after a gaming session.Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling. -
Before futzing in the BIOS I would try the generally simple (assuming it's windows) one of disabling the device before playing:
Windows+Pause/Break -> Hardware Tab -> Device Manager -> Find the touch screen controls (possibly under Human Interface Devices)
From there you can disable/enable it, often with out a reboot.Comment
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