Windows 8 Tablet creates a zoomed-in window when touching certain areas

[Roarkitty]

I tried posting this on the microsoft forums but they seem to be very slow.

When I'm trying to type in my password or fullscreen a video, instead of touching the screen selecting the field or fullscreening the video, it will create a small window which displays a zoomed in version of the area I touched. This is very annoying doesn't actually let me fullscreen or enter my password. Also sometimes instead of switching from the e-mail to password text fields it will assume I just want to copy text.

[tielknight]

Don't know a whole lot about touch-screen stuff, but it sounds like it's registering your "tap" as a "hold". Perhaps there is a setting that does this or maybe a problem with the screen itself? I'm just guessing here but that is what it sounds like.

[Roarkitty]

Holding the touch screen creates a right-click. Also this pop-up zoomed-in box only applies to certain fields such as passwords or going fullscreen.

[tielknight]

I got a similar thing that happens with password boxes on my phone, it zooms in to the box and has me type in the password or whatever and then there is a button on the keyboard that takes you to the next input box and usually there is a way to cancel the zoom(not sure if your tablet has a dedicated "back" button like my phone does) and return to where you were before it zoomed into the input box.

[flarecde]

It does this usually when too many links are close together. Click the link you want again in the zoomed box and you'll usually get what you want.

[Roarkitty]

My problem is clicking in the zoomed box does absolutely nothing. Is there a known way to disable this?