How to Disable and Re-Enable the Touchscreen for Cleaning Programmatically
Some customers wish to temporarily disable the Elo — Now part of Zebra Technologies touchscreen programmatically to clean the glass or to make touch unavailable for administrative reasons. This article provides steps for disabling and re-enabling the touch screen by using Windows PowerShell (Admin).
Note: This method works on Windows operating systems using the built-in Windows PowerShell utility and does not require an active Elo driver to be installed.
Disabling the Touchscreen
- Right-click on the Start button (or press Windows key + X simultaneously) and select Windows PowerShell (Admin) from the popup menu.
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In the PowerShell window, enter the following command and press Enter on your keyboard:
Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object {$_.FriendlyName -like '*touch screen*'} | Disable-PnpDevice -Confirm:$false
Re-Enabling the Touchscreen
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To restore touchscreen functionality, enter the following command in the active PowerShell window and press Enter:
Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object {$_.FriendlyName -like '*touch screen*'} | Enable-PnpDevice -Confirm:$false
Related Articles
- Temporarily Disable Touchscreen to Clean (requires Elo driver to be installed)
- How to Automate EloConfig.exe Clean Screen (requires Elo driver to be installed)
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