Microsoft Surface tablet owners using a pen, stylus, or finger as touch mode for providing input to the device may sometimes find the screen doesn’t respond appropriately. Touch input is on by default and can’t be turned off. Probably there’s a change in accessibility settings and programs; hence, you need to calibrate such settings. Also, check if you have the correct drivers installed.
Calibrate Surface Pen and Touch Settings
To adjust how accurately your screen senses when you use a pen or finger, swipe in from the right edge of the screen and then tap Search.
Enter Calibrate in the search box, tap Settings, and then Calibrate the screen for pen or touch input to open Tablet PC Settings. Check that the monitor shown in the Display field matches the screen you want to calibrate.
Tap Calibrate, and follow the on-screen instructions.
Get touchscreen to go to the correct screen
Follow the above mentioned steps (1,2 and 3). Next, tap Setup, and follow the on-screen instructions.
You can also change Pen and Touch actions, if you want to.
Change Pen and Touch actions
To change or adjust how fast, far, or long an action takes, swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search.
Enter pen and touch in the search box, tap Settings, and then tap Pen and Touch. Tap the action you would like to configure, and choose Settings.
From there, simply follow the on-screen instructions to complete the task.
Check out the Surface app too! It lets you customize the Surface Pen.
See this post if Windows laptop or Surface Touch Screen not working.
If you use a touch cover with your surface you need to calibrate it two times (at least the pen, I didn’t try it with touch).
First time without the touch cover, second time with touch cover attached.
The calibration data is stored in two different registry keys:
Without touch cover: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumHIDVID_045E&PID_0799&MI_01&Col018&11540d24&0&0000Device Parameters”
With touch cover: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumHIDVID_045E&PID_079A&MI_01&Col018&60e8ac6&0&0000Device Parameters”.
Maybe this strange behavior appears also with the type cover. I didn’t try…
Thanks for the inputs Christoph.
I am using a iLuv Stylus pen that used to be excelent with my iPad. When trying to use it with my Surface RT, it is not working ok. I use a screen protector on my RT, but it was pretty bad before I applied it.
I tried to calibrate it, but the RT went crazy when touching. Tapping on one area affects as if I was tapping in a completely different position. I reset the configuration in order to go back to the previous config.
Any idea on how to Improve it?
I don’t want to use the pen. I want use just my finger. I can’t close windows with my finger I have to use the pen. I can’t put the curser in the seachnwindow with my finger any more. I update all the time and I didn’t have any of this crape when I first got my pro 3. Please help me so frustrating I’m thinking I should have bought an iPad
I feel the same way and I cant fix my screen because’ Surface touch calibration is still at factory settings ‘ I wish I never got this lap top it is meantnto be a TABLET but the touchscreen doesn’t work
I like crapes.
Few people care about these mostly useless settings. The “most important” control would be touch sensitivity, but of course this is flagrantly lacking and probably for good reason. It would give users too much control of their property and prevent M$ from selling you a new computer when hardwear and wear issues could alternatively be solved using software adjustments. Instead we get the “calibrate” crap which is totally useless and no real control.