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Switch 10: Current best practice with regards to energy settings

hgpuke — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 09:03:13 GMT

As a new user to a Windows 8.1 tablet, I am curious as to how most people use their tablets to maximize the battery time. Do you shut it down completely when not using it or do you let it go to sleep or what?

Switch 10: How to optimise screen real estate?

hgpuke — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 09:01:29 GMT

I am a new user of Aspire Switch 10, and I notice that sometimes the screen gets a little too low on screen real estate in the vertical direction, when used in laptop mode. This can lead to the situation that a button cannot be pressed because it is "off screen". This is a problem when the window cannot be resisised. Is there a workaround for this, such as limiting the width of the window banner, or shrinking everything to fit?

Re: Acer Switch 10 64Gb: Touchpad Bug

hgpuke — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:23:03 GMT

I just bought a Switch 10 with 64 GB of SSD and so far I have not experienced any problems. So what problems are you referring to in this thread???

Re: Can I use any digitizer pen for acer aspire switch 10

hgpuke — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:17:27 GMT

I know that there is an "active" pen that works with iPad Air and that is very useful with it. As both Acer Aspire Switch and iPad uses a capacitive screen/digitizer, it might work. However, I have not tried myself.

Re: Some keybord keys do not work

hgpuke — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:14:12 GMT

Sounds like a hardware problem to me...

Re: How can I type the characters printed in green colour on the keyboard of Acer aspire switch 10?

hgpuke — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:32:03 GMT

I've now tried. Using the Fn-key would only type the characters printed in blue. The backslash was printed in green, as is the danish ae and 0-slash (ö). Explaining the problem to my wife, she wanted to give it a go. And to my surprise solved it in under one minute. I had missed that the backslash WAS ALSO printed in white on the same key as + and ? so to be able to type it, all I have to do is to hold the Alt-Gr key down while pressing this key. Stupid of me to don't see it the first time around.

Going back to the original question about the characters printed in Green, I have come to the conclusion that these are for "converting" the keyboard to a Danish country-specific layout by specifying that keyboard-layout in Windows settings. Similarly, there are some characters printed in Red. I assume these are for Norwegian.

This type of complexity is what you get when the manufacturers want to reduce the country-variants to as few as possible, I suppose.

So all is good and well here

For reference, I am attaching a pic of my keyboard

Re: How can I type the characters printed in green colour on the keyboard of Acer aspire switch 10?

hgpuke — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:01:20 GMT

Thanks for the tip, will try when I get back home from work.

If it doesn't work, I will e-mail a pic of the keyboard as you suggested.

How can I type the characters printed in green colour on the keyboard of Acer aspire switch 10?

hgpuke — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:35:54 GMT

My (nordic) keyboard on my Acer Aspire Switch 10 has some characters printed in green. This includes the backslash-character which I need desperately. However, I cannot find any information in the manual or elsewhere on how to access (type) these characters. Please help!