On-screen keyboard closes automatically when pressing special characters (AltGR+...)

Question

Hi. My Surface Pro's virtual keyboard always automatically closes when i press a special character that needs AltGr to be pressed before (eg. #*$). Can you confirm me if this is only happening on my device or not, is it intentional or not (i hope its not)? Any fix or workaround? Fully updated Win10. Thanks

Answer 1

I have the same problem on all of my win 10 touch devices. It started after the april update 1803. When i press altgr and any other key, including altgr twice, the touch keyboard closes. Also, the touch keyboard doesn't work woth chrome properly anymore. When i open a new tab, switch tabs, close a tab or even close the whole browser the touch keyboard opens. It worked properly before the upate. Fix please.

Answer 2

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Hello Andre Da Costa,

Thank you for your answer, but i meant that i do want to use the on-screen keyboard and keep it open even when i have to enter those special characters. Currently it automatically hides after i pressed AltGr+"somthing" and i don't want it. For example my passwords often contains special characters but they are not the last characters of the pw, so i have to open the on-screen keyboard twice or more to enter it.

Sorry if i wasn't clear at first, i guess i am now.

Thank you

Answer 3

Disable then enable to the keyboard.

Open Start, type: CMD

Right click CMD

Click Run as administrator

Type in at the prompt OR Copy and Paste these one at a time : (Hit enter after each)

sc config "TabletInputService" start= disabled

sc stop "TabletInputService"

When you want to enable it, go to the command prompt then enter the following commands.

sc config "TabletInputService" start= auto

sc start "TabletInputService"