I have a cracked touch screen Windows 8 on an ACER Aspire V5. Will a non touch screen replacement work?

Anonymous
2013-07-22T19:41:44+00:00

At the end of last year I went to buy a new laptop with Windows 7 on it, but there were none to be had unless you wanted to pay through the nose.  I had to settle for an Acer Aspire with Windows 8 and touch screen.  Now the screen is cracked in the lower left corner, but the video still works; except for the touch part.  It is machine gunning hits all over the screen, opening, closing, enlarging, modifying, well just mayhem, and I'm not touching the thing.  I took it back were I bought it to have it repaired and they said I would be better off cost wise with a new computer, as the touch screen part is very expensive.  The computer is 6 months old and unusable.  I still owe on it.  Microsoft played a dirty trick on us by forcing Windows 8 when we didn't want it, and Acer did the same forcing ultra-thin touch screens priced out of sight.  It really is tough as I use it in my work.

I want to know if I had a non touch screen put on it, and they are available at reasonable cost, would Windows 8 be useable or would it not work at all?  I could get along without touch screen if it at least was usable.  I did try turning the touch off, but there was no option in Control Panel for it.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-09-27T18:12:43+00:00

    Mine's in the top right corner. It cracked less then 3 weeks in my possession.  Apparently there is no way to turn off the touch screen so we either have to deal with it or pay for a brand new screen! Ridiculous! So infuriated!

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-09-27T23:01:44+00:00

      Apparently there is no way to turn off the touch screen

    Did you try going into Device Manager, finding the Multi-touch device and disabling its driver?

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-10-03T08:16:47+00:00

    What's the driver called??? Please help

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-10-04T03:43:10+00:00

    What's the driver called?

    If you use the Device Manager method you don't need to know the driver.  The Properties dialog will show you a Disable button.   Have you found a device which does multi-touch?

    In case it helps you get a clue for us try this WMI query (e.g. in an Administrator Command Prompt):

    C:>wmic.exe Path Win32_PnPEntity where (Description like "%touch%") get Description

    In fact, if you find a likely one that way you could change your pattern to match just it and then list all its properties with (for example)

    C:>wmic.exe Path Win32_PnPEntity where (Description like "%multitouch%") get  /format:list

    E.g. in my case  MultiTouch is a sufficient pattern to uniquely match one device.

    FYI

    Robert

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-10-14T07:18:49+00:00

    On my computer (Acer Aspire V5) they were listed as HID-compliant devices under the Human Interface Devices heading. I disabled all 10 and that seems to be working so far.

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