Solved Medical Kiosk Taskbar Problem

aolish · Aug 6, 2024

Hello everyone,

I was hoping if someone could help me with a little problem that we have with a touch screen kiosk running Windows 11 Pro. It's a single purpose kiosk running one app 24x7 at full screen. We have the taskbar hidden automatically. However, I noticed something that 11 does that 10 does not. In Win10 when you swipe up from the bottom (only on the desktop) the taskbar is revealed momentarily, but when you have an app running at full screen you cannot do this.

However on Win 11 Pro the swipe up feature will reveal the taskbar REGARDLESS whether you are in a full screen app or not. Is there a way that I can stop this from happening to prevent people from doing other things? Is there perhaps a registry edit that can prevent this? Thanks a lot.

garlin · Aug 6, 2024

You can try the GPO lockdown setting, for disabling swiping in from any screen edge.

For everyone, including the Admin account.

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EdgeUI]
"AllowEdgeSwipe"=dword:00000000

Per-user.

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EdgeUI]
"AllowEdgeSwipe"=dword:00000000

aolish · Aug 6, 2024

It looks like applying a local group policy worked. It doesn't seem perfect but its better than nothing. It looks like the taskbar sticks (even when automatically hide taskbar is enabled) until you tap the screen for it to go away when the app starts after a windows reboot, only then will the taskbar go away. Thanks so much!