Windows -Touch Screen Setup & Calibration

• Windows 11/ 10 – Touchscreen Setting
• Open Tablet PC Settings via Shortcut
• Windows 11/10 – Touchscreen Calibration
• Windows 11 – Calibrate Touchscreen via tabcal
• Windows8.1/7 – Touchscreen Setting

Windows 11 / 10 – Touchscreen Setting

Windows 11/10/8/7 supports plug-and-play for external touch monitors. Under normal circumstances, after connecting the touch monitor, the Windows system should automatically recognize it and allows touch input immediately. If Windows 11/10 does not correctly recognize your touch monitor, please follow the steps below to set up the touch screen.
① On Windows 11/10, open [Control Panel] ➜ Click [Large Icon] in the upper right corner ➜ find and click [Tablet PC Settings]

② In [Tablet PC Settings], click [Setup] ➜ Select [Touch Input]

③ Follow the on-screen instructions and tap the touch screen.
④ Press Enter to exit and complete the setup. The touch monitor will then function normally.

Open Tablet PC Settings via Shortcut

If you can’t find the “Tablet PC Settings” icon in the control panel, follow the steps below to open “Tablet PC Settings” by creating a desktop shortcut.
① Right-click on the desktop ➜ Select [Add] ➜ [Shortcut]

② In the project location, enter the following text
%windir%\explorer.exe shell:::{80F3F1D5-FECA-45F3-BC32-752C152E456E}

③ Name the shortcut Tablet PC Settings

④ Click the shortcut icon on the desktop to open the Tablet PC Settings window

Windows 11 / 10 – Touchscreen Calibration

🔎 For details and troubleshooting of touch screen calibration, please refer to this article.

Touch Screen Not Working? Windows 10 Touch Screen Calibration & Troubleshooting

① In Windows 11/10，click Windows [Start] icon➜Search for ” calibration” in the search bar
② Click[Calibrate the screen for pen or touch input] in the search result to open [Tablet PC Settings]

★ Note: If the [Calibrate screen for handwriting or touch input] icon does not appear after searching for “calibration”, this Windows 11 should be a version after 24H2. Please refer to Windows 11 – Touch calibration via tabcal

③ In [Tablet PC Settings], select the external touch monitor in the Display menu
④ Click [Calibrate] button

⑤ Select [Touch Input] ➜ Tap the calibration crosst according to the on-screen instructions
⑥ Save the calibration data.

Windows 11 – calibrate Touchscreen via tabcal

Please follow the steps below to calibrate your external touchscreen monitor with the tabcal program.
① Open [Settings] ➜ [System] ➜​​ [Displays]. Click the touchscreen’s icon and set it as the main display. (In this example, it’s Display 3)

② Click the Windows button ➜ Enter tabacl in the search box ➜ Click [tabacl] program icon to execute the program

③ The calibration program will be displayed on the external touchscreen monitor. Click the cross symbol to complete and save the calibration value.

The tabcal program can also be called from the command prompt. Open a command prompt as an administrator and enter tabcal.exe LinCal DisplayID=\.\Display3
[Note: In this example, the touchscreen’s system ID is 3.]

Windows 8.1 / 7 – Touchscreen Setting

📌In Windows 8.1/7, search ” Tablet PC Setting” on Control Panel to calibrate touch input. As Fig., please select “Setting”, when Windows message appears on the screen of On Lap touch monitor, follow the direction to touch the screen and the setting is complete.

Q：What kinds of operation system support touch monitor?

📌Windows 7: Yes, but only single click
Windows 8.1 & Windwos 10: Yes! It also support 10 dections and gesture.
Apple OS/iOS:No. The cursor will react when user touching the screen.However,the cursor’s location could be wrong and it doesn’t support the gesture.
Linux & Android: Yes, if the OS developer enabled “HID multitouch panels” while building the kernal.
(For Linux and Android developer, please active “HID multitouch panels”while establishing kernel, and the external touch monitor can ve supported. )

Ubantu: Yes.(Revision 14.04 and later).Some limitation or gesture problem may happen. Pls suggest the users to check it in Ubantu website first.