Mimicking mouse / cursor hover behavior with touch

Question

I have searched forums for a solution to the missing cursor hover behavior in Win 10 with touch, and I would add to those but they are all closed. (Such as How to cursor hover by finger on touchscreen? (Surface Pro 3, Windows 10.)

The work around I have found is to use the on-screen (virtual) touchpad. It can be enabled on taskbar just like the virtual keyboard, per attached screenshots.

So whenever you need to hover to find a menu or function, rather than messing around with touch & hold, enable the virtual touchpad and then move the cursor to where you need with it. 

If  there is another solution that doesn't require this additional step, please let me know.

This problem mostly impacts my Kindle reader has a hover menu not available by touch.  I'd use this even more for columns to resizing in File Explorer or Outlook (which work okay via touch but can get messy) but the virtual touchpad doesn't have the grab and move functionality.

Hope this helps someone.

Answer 1

Thank you for this hint.