You don t need a touchscreen to use the osk.
Windows 8 1 keyboard popup.
There are a few different kinds of keyboards.
Typing with the windows 8 touch keyboard is quite a basic experience one that has been improved in windows 8 1 to include autocomplete and child keys to create characters that would perhaps require shift on a hardware keyboard.
The most common is a physical external keyboard that you plug into your pc.
Windows 8 1 windows 8 1 rt keyboard shortcuts are keys or combinations of keys that provide an alternative way to do something that you d typically do with a mouse.
Click an option below and it ll open to display a table of related shortcuts.
Continuum is an awesome feature for windows 10 lets you change between desktop mode and tablet mode.
To quickly access the keyboard from the taskbar on windows 10 right click the taskbar and ensure the show touch keyboard button option in the context menu is enabled.
You can customize the on screen keyboard in windows 8 1 by following the steps shown in this video.
Content in this video is provided on an as is basis.
Click that icon or tap it with your finger to pull up the on screen keyboard.
In windows 8 8 1 the only was for the on screen keyboard to automatically pop up when the user taps on a field like the url field in ie is in a metro modern ui application.
Windows 8 touch keyboard basics.
The touchscreen keyboard should open whenever a text field comes into focus.
If user is using a standard x86 x64 app from the desktop in desktop mode the keyboard will not pop up automatically.
You ll see a keyboard icon appear near your system tray or notification area.
By default the touch keyboard does not automatically pop up when tapping on text forms.