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

Usually there is just one "HID - Compliant Touch Screen" which you need disabled.   Go to Control Panel  --->  Device Manager  ---> Human Interface Devices. Scroll the list for the "Touch Screen" line.

Right click and click disable and OK. 

Before I had issues, I set up extended screens, which, if any problems such as this, I could plug in a screen with possible better use over the touchscreen.  The only solution though, and a constant, was to let it sit for about an hour and the "machine gun" touch indicators hitting your screen eventually dissipates to where you can move a mouse and click quickly to disable your touch screen. 

Actually, it warmed up to where nothing was necessary to use the computer, but precaution is best. Disable so on a restart you won't have to revisit the issue.   

I have an 2012 Acer Aspire V5 , same issue as many -- cracked on lower left with no reason. Closed it one night, next morning, cracked.  It appears to me that the casing is slightly higher on the left than right, and given time, the torque stress of opening and closing might eventually crack the screen. Can even be an uneven thing having to do with pulling up on one side or the other (if you're predominately right handed or left handed)

I eventually disabled the screen, after flailing through trying to type in the password, move the mouse, etc. Finally got it. Sadly, I upgraded to Windows 10  later and it reset my touch screen... arrrghhhh!!!  Same problem over again.  Waited my two hours or heating up the laptop and then disabled the screen. I'm under a drop, kick, spill or break warantee, so it's goes to the shop soon.

Device Manager > Human Interface Devices > Right click "HID compliant touch screen" Click "Disable".

Can I disable the touchscreen on my notebook?

There is not a setting to disable the touch-functionality on Acer notebooks with a touchscreen. The driver that controls the touchscreen can be disabled through the device manager. Acer does not recommend that you disable your touchscreen driver.

Use the following steps to disable your touch screen driver:

1. Press the Windows () key + C, or swipe in from the right edge of the screen to open your Charms.
2. Tap or click Search, then type Device Manager.
3. From search results, tap or click Device Manager.
4. Tap or click the arrow next to Human Interface Devices.
5. From the list, look for the driver HID-compliant touchscreen. If you do not see this driver and they are listed as "USB Input Device", try disabling and re-enabling one at a time until the touch screen stops responding.
6. Right-click the driver, then select Disable.
7. Click Yes. If prompted, restart the computer.

After the computer restarts the touch-functionality should be disabled. To get your touch-functionality back, re-enable the drive you disabled and restart the computer if necessary.

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.

worked for me, finally a solution without buying yet another laptop

One thing I did notice was that after disabling only the touch screen driver my laptop monitor now is a generic monitor and will not display high res when on wide screen mode??

This just happened to me this morning. After attempting to follow all of these suggestions, i still was unable to fix the problem because of the cracked screen. Because i thought this was the end of my laptop, i grabbed the left and right side of my screen and attempted to bend it a little (almost like the bend test videos). By doing so, the crazy "touches" on the screen stopped. I was able to log in my password and allow the computer to set up. Those crazy touches on the screen started happening again and i bent the screen once more and it stopped so i was able to disable the touchscreen settings. I know this method does not seem ideal but it did work for me and surprisingly did not crack my screen anymore than it already was.  hopefully it will work for any of you if you attempt to try this:)