Calibrating your touchscreen can help improve its accuracy if you find that your touch points aren't registering correctly on your Dell laptop. Here are the steps to calibrate your touch screen, based on the standard procedure in Windows settings.
Steps to Calibrate Your Dell Laptop Touch Screen
Follow these steps to perform a touch screen calibration to correct potential linearity problems:
- Restart your computer and monitor. This is often the first step recommended before performing hardware adjustments like calibration.
- Go to Control Panel and select Tablet PC Settings.
- Under the Display tab, select Calibrate.
- Choose either Pen or Touch input, depending on which input method you need to calibrate.
- Perform the point calibration that appears on the screen. You will likely need to touch various points to help the system map your touch input accurately and correct any linearity issues.
- Save the calibrated data when prompted.
By following these steps, your touch screen should now be better aligned with your touch input, improving accuracy.
