Policy

Turn off hardware buttons

Microsoft Windows

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Turn off hardware buttons
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Tablet PC > Hardware Buttons
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

Turns off Tablet PC hardware buttons. If you enable this policy, no actions will occur when the buttons are pressed, and the buttons tab in Tablet PC Control Panel will be removed. If you disable this policy, user and OEM defined button actions will occur when the buttons are pressed. If you do not configure this policy, user and OEM defined button actions will occur when the buttons are pressed.

Internal name
TurnOffButtons_2
Policy ID
752ab14409f4
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\TabletPC
Value name
TurnOffButtons
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\TabletPC
Value name
TurnOffButtons
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.