It´s easy to find and start the Windows-8 / 10 On-screen keyboardContent:
1.) ... Start the Windows on-screen keyboard quickly!
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(Image-2) Onscreen keyboard Options! |
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You can use this virtual input device so that it does not depend on the physical hardware for entering text and data. This virtual input device ensures a visual possibility with all standard buttons. You can tap directly on the monitor using the mouse, or using a touch screen, or you can use a single key, or a group of keys, to toggle between the keys on the screen.
3.) Desktop shortcut for the Windows on-screen keyboard!
If you often use the on-screen keyboard, you also want to create a desktop shortcut for the on-screen keyboard on the Windows desktop, so it's even faster to reach!Press the Windows logo + D key combination to focus the Windows 10 desktop!
Just enter the full path C:\WINDOWS\system32\osk.exe and name OSK or on- screen keyboard .
(Image-3) On-screen keyboard on Windows Desktop! |
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4.) Start the on-screen keyboard automatically at login, z, B, for tablets and MS Surface!
If you want the screen keyboard to appear on screen immediately upon login, please open the:
shell:startup directory!
shell:startup directory!
After you create the desktop shortcut for the keyboard , you can make a copy to the Auto-Start folder. If you work on the tablet, it can be very helpful!
5.) If the Windows on-screen keyboard does not want to start!
It happens that the on-screen keyboard hangs, because it is only a program, it can happen, this is a restart of the PC, or the restart of the osk.exe via the Windows Task Manager to remedy.See:
►►► How to quit hanging programs in Windows !
optional:
►►► Restart Windows programs or processes with ProcessKO !
If the file is corrupted, the Windows System File Checker is the correct Windows tool to restore the original versions of the damaged osk.exe files.
►►► use System File Checker !
FAQ 35: Updated on: 20 July 2019 09:43