input devices

How is programming for touch development on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) different from mouse and keyboard development in Windows Forms? This post will cover some of the subtle differences between the two and how to use the most advanced tools for building smooth touch experiences. Link...

Hi My wife has an Asus SonicMaster 17" laptop. She uses a wireless mouse with it, not the touch pad. Since she updated from Windows 8 to Windows 10 there is no way to turn off the touch pad. This is driving her crazy because she keeps touching it when she is typing. I've tried but there is no...

Hello all, I have an Asus S400C and when I right click the mouse either barely moves or moves about an inch. Also (90% of time) the dialog box will show up for a fraction of a second and then disappear. There are so many touchpad problems, I couldnt even search and find someone with this. I...

With the debut of Windows Ink in the Windows Anniversary Update, we introduced simultaneous pen and touch as the dawn of a revolutionary change in interacting with Windows. In our blog post, we discuss how you can use the APIs that you are already familiar with for touch to handle both touch and...

In the last post, we explored a brief history of pen computing and introduced you to how easy it is to get started with Windows Ink in your Universal Windows Platform app. You saw that you can enable inking by adding a single line of code, an InkCanvas, to your app to enable inking. You also saw...

I have a three year old dell inspron desktop running updated windows 8.1 64bit. Suddenly NONE of the input devices are working. I've tried several different wireless mice, and I've tried both a wired and wireless keyboard. NOTHING. I've tried using different ports (both on the computer on on...

Running W7 on a modern desktop (Asus mobo) I had put this off for a long time - hoping it would be stable by time I upgrade. Followed full update process - al up to date before upgrade. After 100% upgrade ... it rebooted and got to to login screen - would not accept any mouse of keyboard input...

I recently purchased and starting using the alienware 17.3. Using two of the usbs, i put in my logitec mouse, and hyper x headphones. I got an error that said power surge to the usb port. I looked it up and uninstalled the software. It didnt work. The one usb on the right works, but the two on...

My keyboard has the special Browser_Search key (usually has a magnifying glass symbol) and I'd like to override that function to map it to whatever I want. Does windows have any way to re-map a special key like this?

I have spent months trying to diagnose why a couple of my systems will not enter any power save states. Late last year i narrowed it down to the fact that i have several game controllers plugged in. When googling 'Windows 10 joystick sleep' i suddenly became aware i was not alone. It seems now...

I have a problem with my mouse it keeps freezing up on me, I have to do the 3 finger salute (ctrl+alt+delete) and then sometimes the mouse will work again but most times it does not work. I have uninstalled the mouse- did not work. I even reinstalled the os and that did not work either, now I'm...

When i pressed both of the mouse buttons at the same time in windows 8.1 it would open a new tab in chrome. when i do this in windows 10 it will sometimes open a new tab, but most of the time it launches the start menu. how do i get it to stop launching the menu?

I installed Windows 10 three days ago. Since then I have had numerous problems with my mouse and track ball. What happens is this: I am working and then the mouse or track ball are unresponsive. I then try whichever device I am not using and it is also unresponsive. I then try my wacom tablet...

This is not the first time I've faced this problem. This problem occurs after it passes the BIOS and when the windows logo comes out, both devices will stop working. I can normally enter BIOS and safe mode (but both devices still dont work in safe mode after enter the desktop). Heretofore, I...

I have a ps/2 keyboard controller that was originally designed for an arcade system, however the software designed to reprogram the rom does not connect to it anymore. It functions well, but they keys are just locked to whatever they were last programmed to be. Sooooo, what I would like to do...

Ok, so here is the breakdown. I have a Sony Vaio Model # VPCEB47GM. I know Windows 8 is not compatable with this machine, however; I thought whats the worst that could happen. A couple years ago, I installed Windows 8 defiantly against Sony and it caused nothing but issues. (I know this is...

I have searched hi and low to try and resolve issue, both the magic mouse and wireless keyboard worked fine on my old windows 7 machine. Now new windows 8.1 machine (with different bluetooth) no joy. Numerous restarts, driver switches, nothing helps :-( I can get them to connect for a...

Hello all, I have a Dell Inspiron 17 3721 which I recently purchased in an auction from Ebay. It came with Windows 8. The problem I'm facing with this laptop is that the computer works fine for the first 5minutes and then afterwards, the touchpad doesn't get clicked on any icon or a windows and...

Laptop Keyboard and Mouse is not working properly now. Last time this occurred which was about 3 months ago, I reset-ed Windows 8 and it was all working again. When this occurs, in both incidents, I can't go to bios, can't enter password to login, can't open on-screen keyboard(except sometimes)...

I built a pc last friday, and i have only one issue. I have Windows 8.1 64-bit, and when im trying to type something my keyboard starts to open programs. I think they are windows key shortcuts. But anyway my windows key isnt stuck because it works no problem with other computer. Please help with...