How to disable windows 10 touchscreen gestures?

Question

I need to disable all touchscreen edge gestures so an application can run in 'kiosk mode' without the user accessing things like virtual desktops or action center / notification center. However the user still needs to be able to use the touchscreen to click the screen as with a mouse. There is 'assigned access' on certain windows operating systems which mau help, but not on this device which has windows 10 home. The device is a 7" linx tablet running a 'Goodix' brand touchscreen but ideally i need an answer that works with any windows touchscreen device.

Solution 1

official way to disable touchscreen gestures is only available on pro / enterprise / iot windows. home edition users will be out of luck.

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Local Computer Policy
 Computer Configuration
  Administrative templates
   Windows Components
    EdgeUI
     Allow edge swipe = Disabled

Completely Disable Action Center in Windows 10

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
create new DWORD DisableNotificationCenter=1

Disable New Action Center Sidebar and Restore Previous UI

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell
UseActionCenterExperience DWORD= 0 ( default = 1)

Solution 2

I have been trying to remove the swipe for action center for a while and not finding any solutions anywhere online. I finally was able to achieve exactly how I wanted it to behave. Swiping from the right edge does not activate but the button still remains in the taskbar if i do want to use it. All I did was modify the registry here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\default\LockDown\AllowEdgeSwipe

I changed "Value" from 1 to 0, rebooted and good to go.

Comments

[Ramhound]

You can uninstall the device itself, that would disable the gestures, more information about the device would be required to provide different suggestions and/or answers.

[Millemila]

Any update on this? It is frustrating!

[Millemila]

Any update on this? It is frustrating!