Disabling the Multi-touch driver did it for me. I'd put my laptop away because I hadn't figured out a solution on my own. Thanks.
I have a cracked touch screen Windows 8 on an ACER Aspire V5. Will a non touch screen replacement work?
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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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2016-06-23T22:23:34+00:00 Same thing happens to my computer for a while... well kinda glad i'm not the only one with bad luck when it comes to laptops
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2016-12-03T16:30:29+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.
THIS hellped me free https://youtu.be/u0iUvhqiaOU
We don't have to spend any money
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Anonymous
2016-12-03T21:37:40+00:00 See my earlier posting. If you can manage to get into your laptop's settings and disable human interface (i.e. turn the touch screen into a normal screen), then you are probably able to stabilize your screen and continue to use the machine as a normal laptop. Otherwise it costs far too much to replace the screen and you might as well trash it.
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Anonymous
2016-12-17T18:03:42+00:00 I have the same issue. This bus ridiculous!! I just want to be able to disable the touch screen. Why does Acer have to make things so difficult? How does one disable the touch driver? I can't find it in device manager.