There is no way to banish the icon using the regular taskbar and system tray customizations. There seems to be a minor bug in both instances where even after you turn the keyboard off by the obvious mechanism, by right clicking on the icon and unchecking “show touch keyboard button”, it returns shortly thereafter, or upon rebooting. RELATED: 14 Ways to Customize the Taskbar in Windows 10 The second, and less common, situation is that you have connected to your Windows machine with Windows Remote Desktop Connection or a similar remote desktop solution and Windows has turned on the touch keyboard so that you can, if need be, use your mouse or finger (if connecting via touch screen device) to type on the remote computer. If you never use the touch screen on your device, the presence of the icon and accidentally loading the on-screen keyboard can get very annoying very quickly.

In this case, Windows is attempting to always make the on-screen touch keyboard accessible to you in the event that you wish to use the device in touch-only mode. The first, and more common situation, is that you have a laptop or convertible tablet running Windows 8 or 10 and that device has a touch screen.

There are two primary situations where you may find the “touch keyboard” icon appearing in your system tray. Why Does the Touch Keyboard Keep Appearing?

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