SOLVED: Touchscreen Touches Go To The Wrong Monitor
If you touch one of your touchscreens and the actions appear on a different screen this is fix for you. This solution also works if Windows does not detect any touch activity on a touchscreen (i.e. I touch the screen and nothing happens on any screen).
Click START
Type TABLET
Click on TABLET PC SETTINGS
Click SETUP
Click TOUCH
As prompted, touch each screen once and press ENTER.
If you follow these directions in current versions of Windows 10 (1909-2004), you no longer see "Tablet PC Settings." If you click on "Tablet," it takes you to the Tablet applet in Settings, and there's no "Setup" option. It's necessary to manually open Control Panel and click on Tablet PC Settings to get the dialog box that includes the "Setup" button, which in turn launches the Tablet Setup Wizard that will set things right.
It's hard to believe but if I right-click the Windows icon, select "Run" and type there, neither "tablet" nor "tablet PC Settings" brings up anything but an error message box. It seems that Windows 10 will no longer find items in its own Control Panel.
Thanks, Milleron, this really helped. All hail, I tip my hat to you. This took me half the way with my problem and I managed to get the touchscreen monitor working as intended without interfering with my Cintiq's pen operation.
On the off chance someone else out there three years from now is trying to set up a touchscreen Cintiq and a touchscreen monitor and struggling because now the Cintiq is registering the touches on the wrong screen or Cintiq registering the pen disconnected and the pen is drawing on the wrong screen now...
1) You have to run the setup twice, once on the Cintiq and once on the touchscreen monitor. This will allow them both to function as touch devices. However, at this point the pen will no longer connect. Ignore Window's option to calibrate a pen, it won't help you here.
2) Go into your Wacom tablet properties settings where you can change all the tabs for and beside 'pen' and 'eraser' select 'calibrate', you will see the Cintiq has replaced itself with the other monitor. Change it to the Cintiq and then re-calibrate your pen with the x markers.
3) You will then observe that this has caused the touchscreen on the Cintiq to start registering touches on the other monitor. Return to the Tablet PC settings from Control Panel and run Configure for the touch again, but not the pen. It will now be working as intended.
4) Unless it's not in Clip Studio Paint, which means you have to change it from Tablet PC to Wintab, because Tablet PC's precision mode won't work with multiple monitors.
Perfect, never would have found that, thanks!
For those who have pen and touch, you have to do it twice.
Hi Miller;
I too find it bizarre. How can Microsoft take more than 5 years to convert the old CONTROL PANEL to the new SETTINGS? This makes for messy instructions that are frequently outdated.
Thanks for the updated information.
Hey, thank you for that helpful advice.
I'm using a cintiq 13hd and I tried it out but it shows me only one display (but not from the tablet) so what can I do?
That is odd. Are you saying the DISPLAY SETTING is only showing 1 screen even though you have an external attached?
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If you follow these directions in current versions of Windows 10 (1909-2004), you no longer see "Tablet PC Settings." If you click on "Tablet," it takes you to the Tablet applet in Settings, and there's no "Setup" option. It's necessary to manually open Control Panel and click on Tablet PC Settings to get the dialog box that includes the "Setup" button, which in turn launches the Tablet Setup Wizard that will set things right.
It's hard to believe but if I right-click the Windows icon, select "Run" and type there, neither "tablet" nor "tablet PC Settings" brings up anything but an error message box. It seems that Windows 10 will no longer find items in its own Control Panel.
Thanks, Milleron, this really helped. All hail, I tip my hat to you. This took me half the way with my problem and I managed to get the touchscreen monitor working as intended without interfering with my Cintiq's pen operation.
On the off chance someone else out there three years from now is trying to set up a touchscreen Cintiq and a touchscreen monitor and struggling because now the Cintiq is registering the touches on the wrong screen or Cintiq registering the pen disconnected and the pen is drawing on the wrong screen now...
1) You have to run the setup twice, once on the Cintiq and once on the touchscreen monitor. This will allow them both to function as touch devices. However, at this point the pen will no longer connect. Ignore Window's option to calibrate a pen, it won't help you here.
2) Go into your Wacom tablet properties settings where you can change all the tabs for and beside 'pen' and 'eraser' select 'calibrate', you will see the Cintiq has replaced itself with the other monitor. Change it to the Cintiq and then re-calibrate your pen with the x markers.
3) You will then observe that this has caused the touchscreen on the Cintiq to start registering touches on the other monitor. Return to the Tablet PC settings from Control Panel and run Configure for the touch again, but not the pen. It will now be working as intended.
4) Unless it's not in Clip Studio Paint, which means you have to change it from Tablet PC to Wintab, because Tablet PC's precision mode won't work with multiple monitors.
Perfect, never would have found that, thanks!
For those who have pen and touch, you have to do it twice.
Hi Miller;
I too find it bizarre. How can Microsoft take more than 5 years to convert the old CONTROL PANEL to the new SETTINGS? This makes for messy instructions that are frequently outdated.
Thanks for the updated information.
Hey, thank you for that helpful advice.
I'm using a cintiq 13hd and I tried it out but it shows me only one display (but not from the tablet) so what can I do?
That is odd. Are you saying the DISPLAY SETTING is only showing 1 screen even though you have an external attached?