How to make your Surface RT touchscreen respond faster

January 15, 2013

Fiddling with the Registry is old hat to anyone conversant with Windows, but Microsoft's Surface RT—well, that's a tablet with a specialized version of Windows. Surely it has no Registry to hack, right? Wrong—and stop calling me Shirley. (Dang, that joke just doesn't work in print.) It turns out that you can indeed access the Registry of a Surface RT tablet, and one of the first discovered tweaks can greatly reduce the lag time between touching the screen and getting a response. Let me just pause right here and note that if you've never noticed any lag on your Surface, or it doesn't bother you, it's probably not worth monkeying with the Registry. As always, any changes you make therein can have undesirable results, so I don't recommend this to anyone who's not an intermediate or advanced user. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025190/how-to-make-your-surface-rt-touchscreen-respond-faster.html