Windows 7: Onscreen Keyboard & Touch Screen

For touchscreen computers, it would be nice to resize the onscreen keyboard so I could use it comfortably like an actual keyboard, but of course this requires the keys to be pretty big. The problem is, the onscren keyboard only resizes to fit the screen, it wont' resize any more in width. The esc and extra keys on the right I don't really need, I was hoping I could size the keyboard wider than the screen and just see the main keys, but I can't.
Is there any way I could do this so I could use the keyboard better?
I basically want to get rid of the resizing limit for the onscreen keyboard. thanks
(windows 7 professional x64 on 12.1" capacitive touchscreen)