Provide a description of the new feature / enhancement
Windows allows you to remove the task view button from the taskbar but there are still multiple ways task view itself can be triggered often unintentionally, including by swiping 3/4 fingers on the touchpad (an accidental brush with the hand in passing) or dragging across the left edge of a touch screen (it's very easy to trigger this accidentally by selecting and dragging something that is partially off screen like a jigsaw piece placed next to the puzzle in Microsoft Jigsaw). There is also a Logitech keyboard that causes task view to trigger frequently.
Some users also wish to prevent deliberate activation on eg a tablet used as a kiosk device.
There are numerous support requests in official and unofficial forums from users wanting to turn off task view (usually the response is to turn off the task view button on the taskbar and the OP then explains in some frustration that they want to remove the feature, not the button).
Although you can turn off the multifinger touchpad features, this doesn't turn off edge swipe and other accidental triggers and it doesn't block the feature for kiosk cases.
Currently users have to edit the registry to set (or usually create) the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EdgeUI\AllowEdgeSwipe DWORD and set it to 0.
This seems like exactly the kind of thing PowerToys is there for.
crutkas
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3 years ago
Provide a description of the new feature / enhancement
Windows allows you to remove the task view button from the taskbar but there are still multiple ways task view itself can be triggered often unintentionally, including by swiping 3/4 fingers on the touchpad (an accidental brush with the hand in passing) or dragging across the left edge of a touch screen (it's very easy to trigger this accidentally by selecting and dragging something that is partially off screen like a jigsaw piece placed next to the puzzle in Microsoft Jigsaw). There is also a Logitech keyboard that causes task view to trigger frequently. Some users also wish to prevent deliberate activation on eg a tablet used as a kiosk device.
There are numerous support requests in official and unofficial forums from users wanting to turn off task view (usually the response is to turn off the task view button on the taskbar and the OP then explains in some frustration that they want to remove the feature, not the button).
Although you can turn off the multifinger touchpad features, this doesn't turn off edge swipe and other accidental triggers and it doesn't block the feature for kiosk cases. Currently users have to edit the registry to set (or usually create) the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EdgeUI\AllowEdgeSwipe DWORD and set it to 0.
This seems like exactly the kind of thing PowerToys is there for.