Learn how to use your fingers to perform specific movements on a touchscreen or a touchpad in Windows 11 or Windows 10. Find out the available touch gestures, how to enable them, and how to customize them.

Learn about how to use Narrator with touch in Windows, include basic gestures and typing by touch.

You can change touchpad settings to turn the touchpad on and off, adjust cursor speed, reverse scrolling direction, change three-finger and four-finger gestures, and more.

To check whether this solution resolved the issue, use touch to open an application like Microsoft Edge or another web browser, and try to scroll, pinch to zoom, swipe in from the right, and long-press to test touch functionality.

This appendix lists the keyboard commands and touch gestures available in the latest version of Windows. To view a list of all other keyboard shortcuts in Windows, see Keyboard shortcuts in Windows.

Under Human Interface Devices, right-click on HID-compliant touch screen and select either Enable device or Disable device depending on which action is desired. If there are multiple HID-compliant touch screen devices listed, repeat the steps for each device.

The following is a list of keyboard shortcuts for assistive technologies in Windows 10, including Magnifier, high contrast, and others. To see a list of keyboard shortcuts and touch gestures for Narrator in Windows 10, see Narrator keyboard commands and touch gestures.

Adaptive touch mode allows users with varying mobility and dexterity levels to customize the touchpad to better suit their personal needs.

There are five different touch keyboard layouts that can be used when inputting text with the touch keyboard. To view and switch between touch keyboard layouts and options, select the Keyboard settings icon in the upper-left corner of the touch keyboard.

To scroll the page vertically and pan horizontally touch the screen with the pen tip, and then move the page in any direction you want. Learn more about what you can do with your pen.