This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off showing touch bars for Magnifier when using a touchscreen device for your account in Windows 11.
Magnifier makes part or all of your screen bigger so you can see words and images better.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26300.8497 (Experimental) for Insiders, touch bars for panning in Magnifier are now off by default. Hiding them gives you a cleaner, less distracting magnified view on touchscreen devices.
If you use a touch screen device and prefer on-screen bars for navigating your magnified view, you can turn them back on anytime.
Reference:
Use Magnifier to make things on the screen easier to see | Microsoft Support
Learn how to make items on the screen appear larger by using Magnifier in Windows.
support.microsoft.com
Contents
- Option One: Turn On or Off Show Touch Bars on Touchscreen for Magnifier in Settings
- Option Two: Turn On or Off Show Touch Bars on Touchscreen for Magnifier using REG file
EXAMPLE: Touch bars on touch screen for Magnifier
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Accessibility on the left side, and click/tap on Magnifier on the right side. (see screenshot below)
3 Under Appearance settings, turn on or off (default) Show touch bars when using a touchscreen device for what you want. (see screenshot below)
4 You can now close Settings if you like.
1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.
2 Turn On Show Touch Bars on Touchscreen for Magnifier
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_ON_Touch_bars_for_Magnifier_when_using_touchscreen.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ScreenMagnifier]
"FullscreenTouchPanels"=dword:000000013 Turn Off Show Touch Bars on Touchscreen for Magnifier
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_OFF_Touch_bars_for_Magnifier_when_using_touchscreen.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ScreenMagnifier]
"FullscreenTouchPanels"=dword:000000004 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 If you have Smart App Control turned on, you will need to unblock the downloaded REG file.
6 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
7 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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