Disable Edge Swipes Windows 10
The swipe to go frwd or back ( especially back) in edge browser for w10m is an annoying feature which I want to disable.is there a way? Disabling swipe to go frwd or back in w10m edge browser - Windows Central Forums.
If you are the lucky owner of a Windows 10 device with a touch screen, you might be familiar with its swipe gestures. They are different from Windows 8. Depending on the screen edge you swipe from, Windows 10 performs a different action. Let's see what those actions are and how to disable them.
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Out-of-the-box, Windows 10 supports the following set of edge swipe actions:
- Swipe in from the right side of your screen to open Action Center.
- Swipe in from the left to view all your open apps in Task View.
- Swipe in from the top to show the app's title bar while Tablet Mode is on.
- Swipe in from the bottom to view the taskbar in fullscreen apps while Tablet Mode is on or when the Taskbar is auto-hidden.
If you want to disable the edge swipes in Windows 10, you need to do the following.
How to disable touchscreen edge swipes in Windows 10
- Open Registry Editor.
- Go to the following Registry key:
Tip: You can access the desired Registry key with one click.
If you don't have such a key, then just create it. - On the right side, create a new 32-bit DWORD value named AllowEdgeSwipe. Leave its value data as 0 (zero) to disable edge swipes.
- To apply the changes made by editing the Registry, you need to restart Windows 10.
That's it. Might and magic 6 artifacts. To re-enable touchscreen edge swipes in Windows 10, just delete the mentioned AllowEdgeSwipe value and restart Windows 10.
To try this Registry option, you can download ready-to-use Registry files from here:
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Edge swipe navigation (swipe to go backwards/forwards) is causing an erratic user experience in our touch-first Vue.js app because users are suddenly warped to another screen. Is there a way to completely disable swipe navigation in Microsoft Edge?
I've touch-action: none; in the body and touch-action: pan-x / pan-y on certain elements. This however does not give the desired result.
1 Answer
Please try to follow steps below to disable the Edge Swipe.
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(1) Open 'Local Group Policy Editor'.
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(2) Navigate to location below.
Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Edge UI
You can find a setting for 'Allow Edge swipe'.
(3) Double click on it. Dialog will be displayed.
(4) Select Disabled option from it.
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(5) Click on Apply and then OK button.
If you disable this policy setting, users will not be able to invoke any system UI by swiping in from any screen edge.
Regards
Deepak