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Touch keyboard not appearing
ok so I've been having this problem for sometime now with my Inspiron 13
most of the time my touch keyboard doesn't appear on the screen when I tend to use, I have to restart my laptop quite a few times in order to get it to appear
and I don't mean that it's not popping up automatically when entering a text, I mean that it doesn't appear at all even when I click on the touch keyboard icon on the taskbar
the strange thing is that after I click this icon the keyboard doesn't appear but the lower half of the screen is not responding as if the keyboard is there preventing the mouse clicks, and that's only in the lower half of the screen where the keyboard should appear!
I've tried everything, all my system updates are installed and all the drivers are up to date and I checked "services.msc" and the "Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel" is set to automatically start as well as all the dependencies to this service
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that's not my case here, services are all enabled in my case
this link is describing my problem but nobody seems to have a solution
I'm trying the scaling for blurry apps as the last comment suggested and we'll see how it goes
According to this thread which you've probably already seen, restarting Windows Explorer via Task Manager might help:
I can't replicate the frozen keyboard yet, so if you can try this and report back in that thread it might help others.
I wasn't using the touch keyboard enough for me to look into the issue and it's not easily replicatable, so I just ignored it and did a reboot to get it back to normal.
I'll experiment with the touch keyboard over the next few days and report back if a I find a quick fix. But I am fairly certain it's a Windows issue.

Pierreism
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Posted January 19th, 2019 09:00
I've had this across two different laptops while using Windows 10, so I thought it was an OS issue.
There are threads about it on the Windows support forums, for example:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-touch-keyboard-icon-not-working/87b1ea80-5a04-4ffa-b52e-f295bac1a412
so maybe you'd get a better solution there. The GUI seems to overlay a keyboard on the screen but it's invisible & inactive.