On screen keyboard not working in kiosk mode

Question

Hello,
I want to set up a PC with a touchscreen as a kiosk with Edge as the app.
I'm following this guide from Microsoft as it is the most up to date one - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/kiosk-prepare

It says: For a more secure kiosk experience, we recommend that you make the following configuration changes to the device before you configure it as a kiosk:

So, I logged in with my local account, enabled tablet mode and also enabled "Always use tablet mode" and "Always switch to tablet mode" in the Tablet tab in Settings. After that I set up a new kiosk account and restarted. After I restarted the on-screen keyboard isn't showing up in the kiosk account. It works in the other local account. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

I tried all the solutions provided in different forum and non of them solve the problem. While trying to solve it i tried doing it in my own way and guess what i figure it out. You need to go Registry Editor( search in spotlight or click windows button + r then type regedit) then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TableTip\1.7 and then create new DWORD32 rename it to EnableDesktopModeAutoInvoke and change the value number to 1, And HOLA! There you go!

Answer 2

HI IvanPopov-7787,

1.I uploaded the touch.txt file, please modify it to touch.bat

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell" /v TabletMode /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7" /v EnableDesktopModeAutoInvoke /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7" /v DisableNewKeyboardExperience /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

98429-touch.txt

2.Please create test task scheduler on your win10 computer, like below steps:

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Answer 3

Hello,
I created the keys not in HKCU but in HKLM and it worked.

And don't add ....\Software\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7\DisableNewKeyboardExperience = 1 because this is a major security leak. With this keyboard I can actually go into the language preferences and from there to all the system settings. Don't use this for Kiosk PC's

Answer 4

I have it around the other way, I don't want the tablet keyboard as public users on the kiosk have access to Control-Alt-Del. a Scheduled task deployed by Intune is so clunky! Are there any other options?

Answer 5

In Start Search type Regedit and hit the Enter Key.

Now configure the registry keys as below:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7\EnableDesktopModeAutoInvoke = 1
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7\DisableNewKeyboardExperience = 1
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\TabletMode = 1