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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Touch Screens

A touch screen is a monitor with some type of sensing device across its face

that detects the location and duration of contact, usually by a finger or stylus.

All touch screens then supply this contact information to the PC as though it

were a click event from a mouse. Touch screens are used in situations for

which conventional mouse/keyboard input is either impossible or impractical.

• Smartphones

• Smart watches

• Fitness monitors

• Information kiosks

• Point-of-sale systems

• Tablets

• E-readers

Touch screens can be separated into two groups: built-in screens like the

ones in smartphones, and standalone touch screen monitors like those in

many point-of-sale systems. From a technician’s standpoint, you can think of

a standalone touch screen as a monitor with a built-in mouse. These touch

screens have a separate USB port for the “mouse” part of the device, along

with drivers you install just as you would for any USB mouse.

Windows includes a Control Panel applet for configuring the touch

screens on Tablet PCs, such as the Microsoft Surface. Windows also has

Tablet mode Settings for standard touch-screen-enabled computers, such as

many laptops (see Figure 10-28). You can use these applets to adjust how

you interact with the touch screen just as you would with the Mouse or

Keyboard applets. The applets enable you to configure what happens when

you tap, double-tap, use gestures called “flicks,” and more.

KVM Switches

A keyboard, video, mouse (KVM) switch is a hardware device that most

commonly enables multiple computers to be viewed and controlled by a

single mouse, keyboard, and screen. Some KVM switches reverse that

capability, enabling a single computer to be controlled by multiple

keyboards, mice, or other devices. KVM switches are especially useful in

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