touch keyboard customise option when use shell launcher

Question

So we need kiosk mode for our product and we use for that Shell Launcher on windows 10 Iot 21H1. And we use touch screen and want to have touch keyboard. And looks like when explorer.exe "removed" via shell launcher we can see only black touch keyboard with standard layout option where user can see option keys(alt, win, shift) what we don't want to have. When explorer.exe is running we can see white keyboard without "Standard" layout and that what we need, but we don't need explorer.exe. How we can change theme and remove layouts of black keyboard via registry?

Answer 1

Hi Gennadiy,

You can change the theme and layout of the touch keyboard by editing the registry. You need to edit the following registry keys:

Open the Registry Editor.

Go to the following path: HKEY-LOCAL-Machine \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Touch Keyboard

Under this path, you can create or edit the following two DWORD values to change the theme and layout of the touch keyboard:

KeyboardLayout: Set it to 0 to use a white keyboard theme.

KeyboardLayoutOption: Set it to 0 to remove the standard layout option.

Note: Before making changes to the registry, be sure to back up the registry to prevent unexpected situations from occurring. And please note that modifying the registry may have adverse effects on the system, so please operate with caution.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Best regards，

Jill Zhou