How to Enable Touch Screen on HP Laptop

This wikiHow teaches you how to enable the touch screen feature on a Windows laptop through Device Manager.

Steps

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Open Device Manager on the computer. Device Manager allows us to turn on and off any hardware connected to the computer.

Click the Start menu or search icon.
Enter Device Manager .
Click Device Manager in the search results.

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Click the . icon

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next to the Human Interface Devices option. The list of devices in this category will expand.

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Select HID-compliant touch screen . Click this element under “Human Interface Devices” to select it.

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Click the Action tab. This tab is located near the upper-left corner of the Device Manager window. A menu will drop down.

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Select Enable in the Action menu. The touch screen of the computer will be turned on.

You can also choose Disable from within this Action menu to disable the touch screen.

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