The touchscreen on a Windows device is usually enabled by default. If it isn’t, you can enable it via the Device Manager, which you can find in the Control Panel. In this guide, we’ll show you how to enable the touchscreen in Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7, how to force Windows to check the hardware for a touchscreen, and how to update the touchscreen driver.

To enable the touchscreen in Windows 10 and 8, you need to open the Device Manager. You can open the Device Manager through the Control Panel, but it’s a bit faster to open it directly through the search box on the taskbar.

Select the search box on your taskbar.

Select Device Manager.