[Tip] How to Enable or Disable New Emoji Panel in Windows 10
In older Windows 10 versions, when you wanted to insert an emoji in your message, etc, you had to use the “Touch Keyboard“. You can enable the touch keyboard by right-clicking on Taskbar and selecting “Show touch keyboard button” option. It adds touch keyboard icon in Taskbar notification area. You can click on the keyboard icon and then click on Smiley icon to use emojis.
With the release of Fall Creators Update, Microsoft has added a new standalone Emoji Panel in newer Windows 10 versions. You can use this new Emoji panel to directly add emojis anywhere you want.
To access the new emoji panel, you just need to press WIN and ‘.’ (i.e. WIN+Period) or WIN and ‘;’ (i.e. WIN+Semicolon) keys together and it’ll launch the emoji panel. We told you about this emoji panel addition in our exclusive Fall Creators Update changelog topic when it was first implemented in Windows 10 build 16215.
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Once you use the hotkey, Windows launches the emoji panel on screen. Now you can scroll through the several emojis present in the panel and pick the desired emoji. You can also navigate in the emoji panel using your keyboard. For example, you can use arrow keys to navigate among emoji, use Tab or Shift+Tab keys to switch between emoji categories, press Enter key to select the emoji. To close the emoji panel, you can click on the Close button present on the top-right corner of the panel or simply press Esc key.
NOTE: If Emoji Panel keyboard shortcut not working in your Windows 10 machine, try solutions given in following tutorial:
[Fix] Emoji Panel Keyboard Shortcut Not Working in Windows 10
Many Windows 10 users will like this new add-on but some people like me may not find this addition useful. If you are not going to use emoji panel, you can disable it with the help of this tutorial.
Today in this tutorial, we’ll tell you how to disable the hotkey to launch emoji panel in Windows 10. It’ll help you in preventing emoji panel to appear if you accidentally press the hotkey.
If you also want to disable emoji panel in Windows 10, following steps will help you:
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1. Press “WIN+R” key combination to launch RUN dialog box then type regedit and press Enter. It’ll open Registry Editor.
2. Now go to following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Input\Settings\proc_1
3. To disable the hotkey, we’ll need to modify EnableExpressiveInputShellHotkey DWORD. This DWORD is present in different sub-keys under “proc_1” key based on the the selected region/locale in your computer.
For US region, the DWORD is present in following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Input\Settings\proc_1\loc_0409\im_1
The best way to find out the DWORD is go to following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Input\Settings\proc_1
Now press Ctrl+F keys together to launch find box, copy and paste EnableExpressiveInputShellHotkey in find what text box and press Enter key. It’ll automatically go to the correct key and DWORD.
4. Now double-click on EnableExpressiveInputShellHotkey DWORD and change its value to 0
That’s it. It’ll immediately disable the hotkey and emoji panel will not launch if you press WIN+. or WIN+; keys together.
PS: If you decide to enable emoji panel in future, simply change the value of EnableExpressiveInputShellHotkey DWORD to 1 again.
Win+. or Win+;??
In order to access the + you need to hit the Shift key.
Doesn’t make much sense. 😮
No matter, the Show Touch keyboard button is still available even though I installed the
Fall Creators Update.
Weird or what?
^^ WIN+. means press WIN and . keys together. 🙂
@Steve K:
Win+. means press the WinKey and Period simultaneously. The plus sign here means ‘and’.
thank you
Is this only available in US version?
Have swedish version, shortcuts don’t work, and key not in registry..
I have the 1809 update. EnableExpressiveInputShellHotKey does not show at all in the Registry. I can still bring up the emoji keyboard using the WIN+. Trying to apply a group policy for users to not be able to bring up emojis at all. I am unsure of how to go about disabling at this point, any helpful ideas?
You can also do the same trick, the other way around (i.e. creating a new DWORD value called EnableExpressiveInputShellHotkey and set it to 1 under the key im_1), to enable the emoji panel when using other languages. For some reason other languages don’t have this value created, and for this reason Windows doesn’t enable the panel by default.
The only think to mind is that the path is slightly different depending on the language, so loc_0409 is for en-US, while other languages would loc_ followed by a different number. This number is called and LCID and you can find yours here: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-lcid/70feba9f-294e-491e-b6eb-56532684c37f.
Thank you so much. It is not working by default in Windows 10 1709, if you ahve a different region. But last step only done, and it works now.
Thanks.
thanks.it got rid of it.
Thanks very very much for the trick to remove this effing headache.
This is frustrating – it keeps coming back. I use ASCII key commands in my writing and the emoji panel overrides that. I hate that this isn’t an option we can select or deselect in system settings instead of mucking around in the Registry.
Hey, I got a problem, how can I disable emoji when I press alt+arrow keys?
for me the DWORD doesnt exist making the emoji panel impossible to take off of my computer. any help?
This is wonderful, not sure who the genius make this option active by default.
I wasn’t able to find the registry key with that name, but there was one named “EnableEmojiInlineSearch”, setting that to 0 did the trick.
I don’t know why Microsoft chooses to make disabling their useless stuff so difficult, one can only conclude that they hate their user base.
Hey, I got this problem too, I want to disable alt + numpad = emoji or ascii. I found nothing on google to disable it, anyone can help?
@Ghali That cannot be disable because it is system integrated feature.