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Enabling /Disabling the Touch Device, Disabling the HP TouchSmart Button, Disabling the Volume - brightness

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Enabling /Disabling the Touch Device To disable the touch device: 1. Select Control Panel > Device Manager > Human Interface Devices. 2. Right-click on each USB Human Interface Device and select Properties > Details tab 3. Select Hardware IDs in the Property dropdown. If Value shows the following device ID, then the device is the touch device: USB\VID_1926&PID_0003&MI_02 4. Click the Driver tab and then the Disable button. 5. Click Yes on the confirmation dialog that disabling the device will cause it to stop functioning. 6. Click OK to close the USB Human Interface Device Properties dialog. Use similar steps to enable the touch device. Disabling the HP TouchSmart Button The HP TouchSmart button, the round button with the house icon located on the front bottom right corner of the display panel, quickly turns on the computer (if not already on) and launches the HP TouchSmart software. If you need to disable the launch of the HP TouchSmart software in your environment, remove the appropriate Hotstart registry key and restart the system for the change to take effect: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MobilePC\HotStartBu ttons\ Be sure the usage ID registry key contains ApplicationPath string value to the full command line to run the HP TouchSmart software (SmartCenter.exe). Note Removing this registry key only disables the launch of the HP TouchSmart software. Regardless of the existence of the registry entry, if the computer is off, pressing this button will turn on the computer. The button does not turn the computer off. Disabling the Volume and Mute Controls There are volume and mute controls on the right side of computer. If you need to disable these controls, uninstall Buttons & OSD control application gen2 from Control Panel > Uninstall a program. The un-install process does not take effect until a system reboot. Important The following function key combinations, which control the display, will no longer work after uninstalling this driver: Fn+F9 (to turn off the display), Fn+F10 (to increase the brightness of the display) and Fn+F11 (to decrease the 26

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Enabling /Disabling the Touch Device
To disable the touch device:
1.
Select
Control Panel > Device Manager > Human Interface Devices.
2.
Right-click on each
USB Human Interface Device
and select
Properties > Details
tab
3.
Select
Hardware IDs
in the
Property
dropdown. If
Value
shows the following
device ID, then the device is the touch device:
USB\VID_1926&PID_0003&MI_02
4.
Click the
Driver
tab and then the
Disable
button.
5.
Click
Yes
on the confirmation dialog that disabling the device will cause it to
stop functioning.
6.
Click
OK
to close the
USB Human Interface Device Properties
dialog.
Use similar steps to enable the touch device.
Disabling the HP TouchSmart Button
The HP TouchSmart button, the round button with the house icon located on the
front bottom right corner of the display panel, quickly turns on the computer (if not
already on) and launches the HP TouchSmart software. If you need to disable the
launch of the HP TouchSmart software in your environment, remove the appropriate
Hotstart registry key and restart the system for the change to take effect:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MobilePC\HotStartBu
ttons\<UsageID>
Be sure the usage ID registry key contains
ApplicationPath
string value to the full
command line to run the HP TouchSmart software (SmartCenter.exe).
Note
Removing this registry key only disables the launch of the
HP TouchSmart software. Regardless of the existence of
the registry entry, if the computer is off, pressing this
button will turn on the computer. The button does not turn
the computer off.
Disabling the Volume and Mute Controls
There are volume and mute controls on the right side of computer. If you need to
disable these controls, uninstall
Buttons & OSD control application gen2 from
Control Panel > Uninstall a program
. The un-install process does not take effect until
a system reboot.
Important
The following function key combinations, which control the
display, will no longer work after uninstalling this driver:
Fn+F9
(to turn off the display),
Fn+F10
(to increase the
brightness of the display) and
Fn+F11
(to decrease the