Almost 60% of all questions about touchscreen enabled Toughbooks (CF-18, CF-19, CF-28, CF-29, CF-T2, CF-T4, CF-T5) are about touchscreen driver.

The “PS/2 Compatible Mouse” in Device Manager actually covers both the touchpad and the screen, and appears as a fully functioning device right after a new install of XP – there’s no separate device for the touchscreen itself. You have to replace this default driver with the official one from Panasonic here, unhelpfully and simply called “mouse driver”.

Download the mouse driver, extract all the files (Panasonic’s .exe file won’t run on anything but a compatible Toughbook, but 7zip can extract the files by itself), right-click the mouse in Device Manager and point it to Fidmou.inf instead.

Solution #0 CF18 MK1 Win XP

Download and expand mouse-touchscreen driver for MK1 (CF-18BXXX). Follow driver update procedure described earlier in this guide.

Solution #1 CF-T1/T2/T4 CF-18 MK2 Windows XP

Download Toughbook touchscreen driver package #1. Extract and follow driver update procedure described earlier in this guide.

After update, you might need to calibrate the screen. To start calibration procedure open folder where extracted drivers are located and run application named calvin.

Solution #2 CF-T5/T7, CF-18 MK3/MK4/MK5 Windows XP

Download touchscreen driver package #2 (newer version). Unzip and run ftsetup.exe. Restart computer. Run calibration utility if needed.

Solution #3 CF-18 MK4/MK5 Vindows Vista

Download and extract touchscreen update for Vista.