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Windows 11 Touch Keyboard - get rid of the settings icon

Anonymous
2024-04-04T01:18:50+00:00

I want to run Windows 11 in kiosk mode with MS Edge. I have it so that the keyboard does display when I click in an input field. This is good.

However, there is the settings icon on the top left of the keyboard which I would like to hide. I do not want a kiosk user playing around with keyboard layout or switching to handwriting mode and leaving it like that to confuse the next user who tries to use the kiosk.

Along same lines I would like to remove the heart icon which lets them get to emoticons. I am just asking for a name and address. I want the keyboard to be as basic as possible.

Thanks

Jeff

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Input and language

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-06-21T20:00:42+00:00

    Have you figured out any way to disable it? I just want it gone or compacted. I think it is very silly that the keyboard is almost an entire row of keys taller than it needs to be, because there apparently has to be a whole row dedicated to the emoji button and suggestions I won't use, and then another whole row that's just the settings button in one corner and the close button in the other. One would think that an on-screen keyboard application would at least try to take up as little of the available screen space as possible. I don't actually mind these features, but they could really stand to take up about half as much space.

    Anyways, there is a separate keyboard application that likely came bundled with Windows, called On-Screen Keyboard (the default one in Windows 10 and 11, which you and I are using, is the Touch Keyboard). You can try and configure this application instead, and maybe have more success in limiting users from putting it in handwriting mode and stuff.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-04-04T23:01:31+00:00

    The problem is not with MS Edge. That is all working wonderfully.

    The issue is the popup touch keyboard used across all apps. I simply do not want users to change the settings of the keyboard. I have seen lots of registry hacks for modifying some things on the keyboard but I have found nothing about how to remove the settings icon from the keyboard itself.

    If I am running a kiosk, I want the keyboard dumbed down as much as possible. I don't want one user to put it into handwriting mode for example, and then the next user comes along and can't work out why there is no keyboard. I'm happy enough with the overall Kiosk expereience Windows 11 provides, but this keyboard thing is a deal breaker.

    Cheers

    Jeff

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-04-04T20:22:56+00:00

    Dear Jeff B_088

    Thank you for posting in the Microsoft community.

    You can refer to the following website to set up the strategy for EDGE booth mode. Show only specific websites or specific pages. Hide the Settings button in the top right corner of EDGE by policy.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-configure-kiosk-mode

    But EDGE can't limit the user input, as an alternative you can limit the EDGE to exit the full screen feature and disable the current keyboard as a priority in the device manager.

    Best Wish

    Shawn Z | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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