OnScreen keyboard in Windows 10 IE kiosk mode

Question

What we have:

• Windows 10 Pro amd64 1607 all updates installed
• for one user registry key HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\shell changed to C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe -k superuser.com
• configured autologon for this user with Sysinternals Autologon
• there in no hardware keyboard or mouse - only touchscreen!
• Web page works only in Internet Explorer.
• Assigned Access not appropriate for other reasons.

The problem:

• user can not enter data into the input field - the keypad is not displayed when input field focused.

Any solution how to enable onscreen keyboard popup, ONLY when input field focused?

Solution 1

Had the same issue with a custom shell On Win 10. Adding the following two reg entries fixed it for me:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7\EnableDesktopModeAutoInvoke = 1

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\TabletMode = 1

Solution 2

The problem was in hardware and it's driver.

For Windows Ink works it requires that in system present HID device with Usage 0x000D and Page Usage 0x0004 (see Microsoft docs for supported HID clients list).

But my touchscreen driver was implements only Mouse class driver and mapper driver

Comments

[Slipeer]

Web page works only in Internet Explorer. Assigned Access not appropriate for other reasons. It will work tabtip.exe without explorer.exe process? Now try it.

[Slipeer]

Starting TabTip.exe has no effect. The new process will appear, but no on-screen keyboard.

[Toto]

Why have you copied previous answer?

[Fernando Nitatori]

Itś not the same. HKLM instead HKCU...

[Amjad]

I am running kiosk mode with group policy setting for a kiosk account "Custom User Interface" that runs a specified kiosk application. I do not see the keyboard popping up when I select an input field in the application.