Thread: Password entry w/ touchscreen

Originally Posted by gwlund

Does anyone have a good solution for automatically starting the on-screen keyboard during the windows login screen so I can enter a password when using my touchscreen? I know that I can use the Win XP Welcome screen to login but that only works without logging onto a domain.

There is a cool on-screen keyboard called SofType that says it can be enabled windows start-up but they want $200 for it.

A simple solution would be just starting the on-screen keyboard that comes with Win XP but I can't figure out how to have it start before the login prompt.

I would suggest obtaining (in any way possible) Windows XP Tablet Edition. It has an OSK so you can just punch in your password. That's what im doing.

Is a non-tablet PC compatible with Win XP Tablet edition?

Originally Posted by gwlund

Is a non-tablet PC compatible with Win XP Tablet edition?

Yes it would be. I use it on my desktop and car computer fine, no problems.

Originally Posted by DLe

Yes it would be. I use it on my desktop and car computer fine, no problems.

Are there any other benefits for using the Tablet version in your car ?

You could make your password blank.

You could configure XP to log on automatically so you would not have to use a password...

I can't leave my password blank because I'm logging into the domain at work and they have the strict password rules turned on. I can use the "DefaultAdminLogin" register key to auto login but that would also get me in trouble with the security police. I think I've located a copy of XP Tablet so I'll try that solution. It would also be cool if I could use the speech and hand writing recognition features in the car.

I just got this version of Win XP loaded and it works awesome! The OSK is perfect and it even has pretty sweet hand-writing and speech reckognition tools built in.

thanks for the input.