Hey guys,

I own a refurbed Lenovo x380 Yoga, which has a touchscreen.

It used to work fine, but recently, the touch part of the touch screen stopped working. I somehow made it work again for a few days, fiddling around with drivers, so it's not the hardware that is broken.

I am using Windows 11 Pro.

Does anyone have an diea whaT i could try? Is there any community-known incompatibility with a certain Win11 Patch or stuff like that?

Kind regards

Raine

Every time I disable the Human Interface Device in Device Manager, it gets re-enabled somehow. It's annoying to want to clean my laptop screen only to find out I'm clicking/scrolling things again.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enable-and-disable-your-touchscreen-in-windows-b774e29d-be94-990f-c20f-e02892e572fc

Is there a toggle in System Settings? All I see is "visual feedback" toggles.

In Windows 10 there seems to be this:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-turn-off-disable-touch-screen-feature-in/25a390a3-cf74-4d4e-94d0-176a43f190da

However I don't see any checkbox in Win11?
https://i.imgur.com/jQHS5vu.png

I recently replaced my 16 inch M1 Pro MacBook Pro with a Zenbook 14 Flip OLED and I've had it for about a month.

I have observations about the touch experience:

• The touch response is very accurate, smooth, and responsive.

• Almost all Windows apps, whether from this decade, or two decades ago, react exactly how you expect to touch.

• The touch navigation is far more user friendly and easy to use than iPadOS, while simultaneously being far more powerful.

Additionally, I have some overall thoughts about having touch on my laptop:

• Scrolling and zooming with a touch screen is a natural gesture whether in tablet mode or laptop mode. Once you get used to it, there is no going back.

• Photo editing applications, websites, map software, and other use cases that benefit from panning and zooming, are far more intuitive when touch is available.

• Touch screens can provide instant relief from repetitive strain injuries if you use a laptop on your lap.

I've had touch laptops in the past, and they have come and gone. However, the Windows 11 experience is so good that I don't even need a dedicated tablet anymore. For a laptop use case, touch is an immensely beneficial hardware feature that is hard to omit once you get used to it.

I've become so biased toward touch on laptops at this point that I am frustrated that Apple only ships dumb non touch displays on their MacBooks. I have a hard time recommending their products simply because I am so accustomed to touch screens on laptops, and I want others to have this positive experience. I've found myself reaching out and touching a MacBook display out of pure habit. However, it seems when you try to explain the benefits of touch screens to Apple users, they convince themselves that it is a dumb idea. I guess in the end, that's the only stance an Apple user can take. Apple made the wrong bets on touch computing a decade ago, and its still harming them to this day.

And iPadOS is some sort of dumb joke operating system. It has terrible UX, hidden gestures, random inconsistencies, basic features missing. It's such a shame Apple ships such poor software with hardware that is arguably years ahead of the competition. Classic Apple-ism.