Win8 tablets the touch point is ok, but win8 refuses to do click at that point, instead find another button and click that.

When showing the touching point, the screen responds correctly; that is, wherever I touch, the screen showes a circle at exactly the position I touch. However the OS do not use this point as the event point. The response is from something located somewhere around the touched point ---- that is, the OS looks around and find a button or edge of the program or something else instead of what I pointed at ---- to take the click action.

Is there a way to disable this focus look around feature of win8? I know some programmers think that this will make buttons to be clicked easier, however this is the worst idea. When I cannot make action on what I touched exactly, then do you think this is a good touch OS? It's a toublesome OS and not a touch OS.

Hi Alan333,

Did the touch screen work correctly before ?Have you made any modifications to the system before this issue ?

To get a better performance of the system ,please always keep it up to date.

We can try the following steps to have a check .
1.Run the built-in hardware troubleshoot tool to have a diagnostic :
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Troubleshooting\All Categories\Hardware and Devices

2.Update or reinstall the touchscreen driver from the device manager .It is recommended to download the driver from the manufacturer website.

3.Open the Tablet PC Settings  UI and "Calibrate "the touch screen ,we also can reset the settings to have a check .

If the issue occurred recently ,we can perform a system restore to recover the machine to a previous point to have a check .

It is also recommended to look for help from the tablets manufacturer for help.

Best r

Thanks for your reply.

As I have implied, this is an issue that relates to Windows 8. The way to reproduce this issue is simple. While testing for Press and Hold on desktop, the square center locates at the exact position of the finger; however when you open a Property window and do Press and Hold at the tab location, you'll find out that the square is "Moved" to a nearest active focus----either the title bar or the text box below----you can simply find out that you can never successfully touch a tab. This issue will only happen on retina screen with 100% font size, so almost no body noticed that.

I believe it's the Microsoft's problem. I admit that Windows 8 is a new OS, and I also admit that this OS is the most disgusting one----very slow, super high memory consumption, very bad memory leakage, etc. I'm a programmer too and I also deal with hardware. From the way Windows 8 treats memory allocation, I can find out that when you request for some memory, this memory is then fixed to this program, regardless of whether you have used it or not. Then in most cases the free memory is always too much smaller than Windows 7, XP, etc. The simplest data presented is that having 2GB memory and Chrome, disable paging file, the 7 can open up to 20 same web pages and the 8 can only open less than 10, then Chrome crashes. The same origin Windows Server 2012 OS on an 8GB memory server will eat up almost all available memory with commit size up to 12GB after a week or longer.  And the touch screen "Move focus" is the most disgusting one. Maybe some programmer wanted to help "click on the button, not the tab".