This guide will help you turn on or off finger touch on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 touchscreen. This means you can stop your screen from responding to finger taps if you want, but still use a stylus pen if you like.

What is a touchscreen?

A touchscreen is a screen that lets you control your device by touching it directly — no mouse or keyboard needed. You can tap, swipe, or pinch with your fingers to do things.

If your laptop, tablet, or PC has a touchscreen, you can choose to disable touch input from your fingers without affecting other ways to interact, like using a stylus pen.

Note: This change will not affect the lock screen or sign-in screen. You will still be able to use touch there.

By default, your touchscreen allows finger touch. No changes are needed to keep it working.

Disable Touch by Finger

If you want to stop your screen from reacting to finger touches, follow these steps:

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wisp\Touch" /v TouchGate /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

To make sure the change works, restart your PC.

Enable Touch by Finger Again

reg delete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wisp\Touch" /v TouchGate /f

Important Tips

• Editing the Windows Registry changes how your computer works. Be careful and follow the steps exactly.
• If you’re not comfortable editing the registry, ask someone for help.
• This change only affects your user account, so other users on the same PC won’t be affected.
• If you want to undo changes, use the enable or disable files as needed.

That’s all! Now you know how to turn finger touch on or off on your Windows touchscreen device.

More help and info:

• Microsoft Support
• How to Disable Touchscreen on Windows 10/11 (Laptop Mag Tutorial)