Permanently remove/disable Touch Keyboard in Windows 8 taskbar?

If you disable "Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service" it prevents it from coming back. Logging on via RDP always caused it to re-enable and it was annoying me to no end! Thank god its gone for good now.

Go through the following steps:

1. Go to Manage --> Services and Application-->Services`.
2. Double click on Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service.
3. In Startup type .. .
4. Click the small arrow and go to disabled.
5. Click stop service.

Works fine for me and it doesn't come back after a reboot.

Here's a screenshot showing the details:

Right click on the taskbar, select Toolbars, deselect Touch Keyboard

Right click on the task bar -> properties -> toolbars and deselecting it sticks.