The pc has touch screen and amd catalyst control center.
Windows 8 1 keyboard keeps popping up.
When the pc is turned on the on screen keyboard is popped up.
With the keyboard opened take a look at the list of keys and see if any key is pressed their color is changed to blue.
Turn off the on screen keyboard settings.
You can switch the on screen keyboard off via both the settings app and control panel as.
I m on a surface pro.
Disable on screen keyboard through registry editor.
Note that windows 10 includes on screen keyboard settings in both the settings app and control panel.
The first one is a temporary solution where you will need to kill keyboard and input process in.
I had to do this in windows 8 when i had a very similar problem.
Opening the on screen keyboard utility.
After that you should be good.
To do so open up the services menu by pressing windows r on your keyboard and typing services msc in the resulting run dialog box.
Then type osk in the text box and press enter to open up the on screen keyboard utility.
Doesn t do it in any other browser or app and upgrading to windows 8 1 hasn t fixed it.
Press the windows plus r key at the same time to open.
Thank you for your answer.
Press windows r type services msc h.
Here is the guide to disable on screen keyboard in registry editor.
The touch keyboard loads as a windows service by default.
In this short tutorial i will show you guys how to disable the on screen keyboard in windows 8 1 and windows 10.
You can usually fix an on screen keyboard that keeps popping up by adjusting the on screen keyboard settings.
Using the on screen keyboard.
If you have the keyboard button on the taskbar enabled nothing will happen when it is clicked.
Typing on the attached keyboard makes it go away but because it s hiding the text box and re pops up every time i touch the text box to reposition the cursor it s making typing coherently and quickly a nightmare.
To do this press windows key r to open up a run dialog box.
Alternatively you can also disable on screen keyboard through registry editor changing the value data in registry editor to change the on screen keyboard from popping up windows 10 is rather simple.
Just keep in mind that the keyboard is now completely disabled.
The most direct way to get rid of the annoyance it is to simply disable the service.