Oh how rubbish. Smile. Well on all the Acers I owned including the new one no touch screen controls were ever present. Instead, you press fn followed by F1-F12 to control the hardware. > On 2 Feb 2015, at 20:58, Eleanor Martha Burke <eleanormarthaburke@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Indeed Chris I agree. I once had a HP laptop and turning on and off the > wirless was a touch screen above the keys and all I can say is that I had to > learn to stop touching above the keys. My sound was also touch screen so it > used to be quite a pain when I would loose speech and begin struggling to see > why the speech on my screen reader had stopped. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "christopher hallsworth" > <challsworth2@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "access-uk" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 8:53 PM > Subject: [access-uk] Re: Turning on wireless > > >> You may have turned off wifi in your router settings or the laptop itself. >> As far as I know, I configure the wifi on my new laotop Acer E Series E5 >> using normal Windows 8.1 procedures. >>> On 2 Feb 2015, at 17:50, Mark Bishop <franciscan.me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> My laptop doesn't seem to work wirelessly at present >>> Wondering if I have turned something off >>> Any advice to fix this would be welcome >>> Thanks >>> Mark bishop >>> >>> I am running the Birmingham half marathon on 19 October raising money for >>> children with cancer UK. Please help me by going to >>> Www.virginmoneygiving.com/blind__runner** To leave the list, click on the >>> immediately-following link:- >>> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] >>> ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: >>> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> ** and in the Subject line type >>> ** unsubscribe >>> ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the >>> ** immediately-following link:- >>> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] >>> ** or send a message, to >>> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq >>> >> >> ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- >> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] >> ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: >> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> ** and in the Subject line type >> ** unsubscribe >> ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the >> ** immediately-following link:- >> ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] >> ** or send a message, to >> ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq >> > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq