Envy x360 Touch Screen Touches on its own

[aliien]

I have currently disabled touch screen on my laptop because it gets in the way of navigation when it is on.

When I do have the touch screen on, there is like a vertical bar or rectangle, possibly 1-2 cm in width and spans the entire screen verically, slightly to the right of the center where the touch screen absolutely goes berserk. For the entire vertical bar area, it shows the bubble animations as if I were clicking the entire area almost simutaneously, but I am not clicking it at all. Previously before this issue happened (and this problem began to occur a few days ago), that same vertical bar did not really work for touch screen and I did not mind it that much at the time, but now I have to resort to no touch screen at all because of the issues mentioned above.

Things I have tried to do:

1. Reset my windows while keeping my data. It solved the issue for a few minutes and then the touch screen went crazy again.
2. Uninstalled the driver, turned off my laptop, turned it back on, only to have the malfunctioning touch screen return.
3. Disabled and re-enabled the touch screen. Every time I re-enabled touch screen, the "ghost touch screen" continues.
4. Troubleshooted my laptop for touch screen related issues; did not work
5. Googled the problem to see if anyone else was experiencing the same thing as I did, and I came across a YouTube video that seems to mostly match what I'm experiencing. Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfsQd9ZLqRg
6. Wiped down the screen; did not work.

I no longer have warranty on my laptop (HP ENVY x360 - m6-aq105dx), which is running Windows 10 (64-bit).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.