Windows edge swipe gestures are intended to allow control of touchscreens without a keyboard. These gestures allow users to reveal system settings, notifications, or the Start menu.
To prevent players from leaving your LUMOplay experience, it is important to disable these gestures.
On most versions of Windows, putting your computer into Kiosk Mode should achieve this, but if it doesn't, you can edit the registry to completely disable these gestures. (Huge thanks to James at Vision One Australia for providing this fix.)
- Open Notepad
- Copy and paste the following into a new document
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\default\LockDown\AllowEdgeSwipe] "value"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EdgeUI] "AllowEdgeSwipe"=- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EdgeUI] "AllowEdgeSwipe"=dword:00000000
- Save the document as Disable_screen_edge_swipe.reg ensuring that you change the extension to .reg and not leave it as .txt
- Double-click the document you just saved, you will be prompted several times that this may make changes to your machine, allow all the dialogs (Yes, Yes, OK)
- Restart your machine
Screen edge swipes are now disabled and users will no longer be able to get out of your touchscreen apps without access to a keyboard.
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