Windows 8.1 :::::::

1.

Disable Your Laptop’s Touch Screen in Windows 8.1

At some point you may want to disable the touch screen to strictly use your Windows 8 tablet/laptop as a PC with the classic mouse and keyboard combo. There's no built-in option to turn off the touch screen, but Into Windows has a quick workaround.

Here are the steps:

1. First, go to the device the manager by opening the "Charm Menu" and search for "Device Manager." If you don't see it, change the search filter to "Settings."
2. Once in the Device Manager, expand "Tab." Then find "Human Interface Devices" and expand it.
3. You should see several "HID-compliant device" listings. Some PCs will call it an HID-Compliant Touch Screen, but yours may vary—if you don't have a touch screen option, you may have to try each HID Compliant ____ until one works. When asked if you want to disable the device, select "yes." That's it! The touch screen on your Windows 8 device should be disabled.

To enable it again, just follow the same steps, but select "enable" instead. One important thing to remember: Once the touch is disabled, you'll need a keyboard and mouse paired with the device to undo it.

 2.

How to Get Rid of SkyDrive in Windows 8.1 Explorer

 

To remove SkyDrive from the File Explorer's sidebar, just:

• Press Win+R and type regedit to open up the Registry Editor
• Navigate to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {8E74D236-7F35-4720-B138-1FED0B85EA75}\ShellFolder registry key.
• Right-click on ShellFolder and head to Permissions. Click Advanced.
• Under "Owner" near the top, click Change. Change the owner to your user and press OK. Check the "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" box as well as the "Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this subject" box near the bottom. Press OK.
• Back in the original Permissions box, click on your user if it exists (otherwise, click Add and add your user). Check the "Full Control" box under your user and press OK.
• Now, back in the Registry editor, you should have permission to edit this registry key. Double-click the Attributes key in ShellFolderand set its value to 0.
• Restart your computer. When you open File Explorer, the SkyDrive entry should be gone from the list.