According to Microsoft, Windows 10 has an interface so modern that it can also be used on completely touch-screen computers, i.e. without keyboard and mouse, touching on the screen as you do with smartphones or iPads. In fact, Windows 10 tablets and convertible PCs work very well with the touchscreen, but if we wanted to take advantage of these Windows 10 features on your home desktop PC without using the keyboard anymore and thus transforming the computer into a touch device "> How to use the Tablet mode in Windows 10 1) Use a touch mouse
Both Microsoft and Logitech are making peripherals that can be defined as touch-pa m mouse usable for normal PCs. This is a handy solution for everyone, inexpensive (but still more expensive than normal mice), easy to configure and without great impact. In practice, instead of moving the mouse on a plane, you move your fingers on the surface of the mouse itself to move the cursor.
One of the cheapest models is the Wedge Touch Mouse, developed in collaboration with Microsoft and available here -> Wedge Touch Mouse (€ 27).
The more expensive alternative is offered by Rapoo, with its multi-touch Rapoo T8 Mouse, for which you have to pay more than 40 €.
Other TouchMouse alternatives can be found on Amazon
2) Touchpad driver on laptops
Even if the touchpad of laptops works automatically as soon as Windows 10 starts, in order to take advantage of the gestures integrated on modern touchpads it is necessary to install a proprietary driver.
For example, you can configure gestures to activate some apps automatically, to scroll through the apps from right to left and pull up the options bar quickly, as you would by touching the screen on a Windows tablet.
The main drivers for this type of peripheral are developed by Synaptics, but usually it is sufficient to visit the notebook manufacturer's website and visit the official page of our notebook to find the suitable driver.
If we can't find the right driver, we can use a program like Driver Booster, which can be downloaded for free here -> Driver Booster .
3) Purchase a touch monitor
If you use a desktop computer with Windows 10 and we want to experience the thrill of the touchscreen without a mouse and keyboard we will have to buy a touch monitor.
Unfortunately, these types of screens are still very expensive (much less than a few years ago).
On Amazon prices start at € 250 for the models with the highest ratings, such as the 22-inch touch Hanns.G .
Other Touch monitors are on sale on Amazon at variable prices.
4) Add a touch-screen frame
Several manufacturers sell touch-screen overlays that can be installed on existing monitors by converting them to touch-enabled screens.
This solution is quite expensive (see an example on Amazon.it), not easy to find and experiment; our advice is (if we do not want to go back to the 80s with the filters in front of the monitors) buy a touch monitor directly if we want to take advantage of the touchsceen.
5) Connect remotely with a tablet
Having an iPad or an Android tablet, you can use the Splashtop program to connect remotely to the PC with Windows 10.
In this way, the tablet becomes the touch interface for the Windows PC and you don't spend a penny, just download the right app from here -> Splashtop (Android) and Splashtop (iOS).
On the PC to be controlled we will have to install the Splashtop Personal server, downloadable from here -> Splashtop Personal .
In another article we can find the in-depth guide to try Windows on a touchscreen tablet with Splashtop.
6) Control by moving your hands in front of the screen
The most innovative solution is certainly Leap Motion, probably the product that will change the way you use computers.
However, this is not a touchscreen, but rather a remote control (as happens with the Kinect on XBox) by moving your hands .
Leap Motion can currently be ordered for $ 79.99.
Other innovative solutions, still to be discovered, are WiSee that allow you to control a computer using your hands, without any device and without touching anything.
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7) Conclusions
In conclusion we could say that the bet of the Leap Motion is certainly the most fascinating solution to replace the mouse, since it is enough to move your hands (as already seen on many science fiction films, such as Minority Report) to enlarge 3D windows, minimize and send videos or documents between various PCs simply by "throwing" the window with your hands. At the moment everything is still experimental, but the future is traced: soon we will be able to write and open the windows by moving fingers, without even touching the screen (or what it will be, like holograms). For Windows 10, the touch mouse is a purchase that can be considered as well as an excellent gift idea; alternatively, even the control of the PC via a tablet is not to be discarded, even if in the long run it is impractical in everyday use.
The fact remains that none of the solutions listed above is able to completely replace the mouse and keyboard when we are in front of the PC : inevitably we will return to having at least the keyboard to write, while with the mouse there is the possibility of replacing it with the touch one. The touchscreen frame and also the touch-enabled monitor are to be discarded because the Windows 10 Start screen, in the end, will not give great satisfaction with this type of screens, which will however remain stationary on a table and cannot be taken with you to bed or on the sofa (as is the case with a tablet or smartphone).
