How do I turn off windows 8.1 gestures and setting charm bar on my touch Screen

Question

I Have an Touch screen Dell and Windows 8.1 Single language installed, When I move my finger from Right edge towards the middle, Windows 8 will bring up setting charm bar OR

Answer 1

I have the same problem. I have used a Windows system properties named : PKEY_EdgeGesture_DisableTouchWhenFullscreen(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/jj553591(v=vs.85).aspx).

c# --> call dll via P/Invoke --> set PKEY_EdgeGesture_DisableTouchWhenFullscreen property.

Nota Bene : This solution doesn't work for a Modern UI app. For Modern UI app use kiosk mode : Assigned Access http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn465334.aspx .

Snippet code DLL:

extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) bool SetTouchDisableProperty(HWND hWnd)
{
    PROPVARIANT var;
    var.vt = VT_BOOL;
    var.boolVal = VARIANT_TRUE;
    // Get window properties
    IPropertyStore* pPropStore;
    IID_PPV_ARGS(&pPropStore);
    HRESULT hrReturnValue = SHGetPropertyStoreForWindow(hWnd, IID_PPV_ARGS(&pPropStore));
    // set  PKEY_EdgeGesture_DisableTouchWhenFullscreen property
    if (SUCCEEDED(hrReturnValue))
    {
        hrReturnValue = pPropStore->SetValue(PKEY_EdgeGesture_DisableTouchWhenFullscreen, var);
        pPropStore->Release();
    }
    return TRUE;
}

Snippet code c# to call dll :

 [DllImport("libDisableTouchDll.dll", EntryPoint = "SetTouchDisableProperty"
, ExactSpelling = false, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
    static extern bool SetTouchDisableProperty(IntPtr hWnd);

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {    
        // dirty get inPtr process for firefox 
        IntPtr intPtr = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("firefox")[0].MainWindowHandle;
        SetTouchDisableProperty(intPtr);
    }