

It looks exactly the same as the normal clock (although you have way more control over what you want it to show) and adds a ton of useful features. Solved it by following the instructions here: (Here is another more elaborate solution to automatically launch the keyboard instead of the handwriting panel: It has a US English keyboard layout (identical the normal US English keyboard), but no handwriting component so it always launches as the keyboard! Problem solved.Īfter making sure to set the keyboard to show automatically when the cursor is in a textbox, this has made my Windows 10 experience a million times better! The only slight disadvantage I've found is that the Windows store and OneNote will be in Africaans if you don't change the keyboard back to English before launching them (but that's irrelevant to me). I added Afrikaans as one of my keyboard languages and made it default. This is apparently not a setting that can be natively changed in Windows. I am not interested in the inking panel and was looking around for a solution to always launch the normal keyboard as it's annoying to always have to switch from the inking panel back to the keyboard that I want. The handwriting inking panel automatically pops up if you launch the onscreen keyboard by clicking the keyboard taskbar icon with the pen or touch, but the normal keyboard starts if you click it with the mouse. (To get the swipe gestures back, run the app again, uncheck all the boxes, Save, reboot.)Ģ) The onscreen keyboard starts as the handwriting panel but I only use the keyboard From the link above, it seems to also work on the Surface Pro 3 and several users on Reddit reported it works for them. I've been using this for quite a while now without any issues. Works great for me! It eliminates the edge swipes but you can still launch Task View and the Action Center by their taskbar buttons or via keyboard shortcuts (Win+Tab and Win+a). Run it (no need for installation, just double-click on it). Download "Skip Metro Suite" following the link at the bottom of this page:
