This tutorial will show you how to show or hide the virtual touchpad icon on the taskbar system tray for your account in Windows 11.
You can use the on-screen virtual touchpad to control the mouse pointer with your touchscreen.
The virtual touchpad can be dragged to any location you want on the screen.
Contents
- Option One: Show or Hide Virtual Touchpad icon on Taskbar System Tray in Settings
- Option Two: Show or Hide Virtual Touchpad icon on Taskbar System Tray using REG file
EXAMPLE: virtual touchpad
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Personalization on the left side, and click/tap on Taskbar on the right side. (see screenshot below)
3 Under Taskbar corner icons or System tray icons (build 22572), turn On or Off (default) Virtual touchpad for what you want. (see screenshot below)
4 You can now close Settings if you like.
1 Do step 2 (show) or step 3 (hide) below for what you would like to do.
2 Show Virtual Touchpad icon on Taskbar System Tray
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Show_virtual_touchpad_icon_on_taskbar_system_tray.reg
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Touchpad]
"TouchpadDesiredVisibility"=dword:000000013 Hide Virtual Touchpad icon on Taskbar System Tray
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Hide_virtual_touchpad_icon_on_taskbar_system_tray.reg
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Touchpad]
"TouchpadDesiredVisibility"=dword:000000004 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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