I am wondering if it is possible to lock-down a Microsoft Surface RT tablet by allowing one application to always be in the foreground and restricting users from doing anything else. Is it possible to lock down a Surface RT in this manner? Answer It looks like that Windows 8.1/Blue allows you to configure a … Read more
I have Dell Windows tablet (I think the model is the Venue 11 Pro) and when the tablet is turned on I want it to automatically open a specific web page (lets say cnn.com for example) using Google Chrome, and also display full screen. Obviously it may show the desktop for a few seconds first … Read more
I have a Macbook, but it’s slightly too old to use Mac OS X 10.6’s trackpad Chinese input. I have a Wacom tablet, but even though Mac OS X has had tablet character recognition since 10.2 and now knows Chinese characters, they’re separate enough that it apparently can’t put these two together and read Chinese … Read more
On Windows 8 tablets such as Surface, is it possible to use gestures? The first one that comes to mind is an equivalent of the back button. Answer I found a article detailing gestures for a different tablet(Kupa X11) http://liliputing.com/2012/03/list-of-windows-8-touch-based-gestures.html Summarized Swipe from the right (Charms menu) Swipe from the left (Switch apps) Swipe slowly … Read more
Yesterday I installed an old Wacom USB tablet just for fun, to see if it worked with Vista, and it did, since I’ve found a working driver. The only thing annoying me is that now my laptop has been setup as a tablet, and an on-screen-keyboard is shown at the logon. Not really an issue, … Read more
At times it would be very helpful to have up and down arrows while using the Windows 10 tablet onscreen keyboard. Is this possible? Answer You can enable the “standard” keyboard layout for the touch keyboard. This layout provides a better emulation of the hardware keyboard, including four cursor keys, Esc, Tab, Del, Ctrl, Shift, … Read more
My issue is that there’s no way to alt-tab on a tablet running W8 Pro (NOT RT) when I’m in a full screen desktop application. I want to remap my screen orientation hardware key to Alt-Tab. However, the problem here is that its scan code, E0_5B, is shared with the scan code for the hardware … Read more
After using a tablet for a while and disconnecting it, this weird extra artifact has appeared beside my cursor, but only on my second display. The cursor doesn’t distort like mentioned in other questions I’ve seen here, it just has the extra bar on the left side. Changing pointer theme to Windows Black or turning … Read more
When I installed my Bamboo tablet in Windows 7/8, a ring shows anytime I click with the pen. Which annoys me. Answer There’s a new option. Wacom recenly (June 2013) released a new driver: Version 6.3.6-w3 The new driver seems to completely disable the pen rings and works in both Windows 7 and Windows 8 … Read more
I have a Wacom Bamboo pen tablet. When I press CTRL, SHIFT, or ALT, a little yellow bubble pops up near my cursor. This interfers with screenshots etc. Wacom has informed me that this is not a feature of the pen software but of Windows 7. Does anyone know how I can turn this off? … Read more
