Acer Drivers
I starting working as Azure support engineer at March 2024. Feeling the need to experience virtual machines myself, as well as a good screen, I bought Acer SFG14-71.
However, there are some problems with it. I record some of them here, and some solutions.
Noisy fan
Seems many have the same problem.
At first I tried to remove the fan; but it turns out to be not a good idea.
Many solutions for it is to use fn+f. However, it doesn’t work on this PC. Some similar series mentioned AcerSense, however, when I downloaded and install, it prompts not supported.
After some search, I find that there is an BIOS update enabling it. After installed it, I can install AcerSense.
Then I can use it to adjust fan speed.
Also, AcerSense is a UWP app, which don’t have shortcuts on program files or desktop. So if you are not administrator, you cannot see it in Windows search, so cannot run it. Here is a solution:
Jump to C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\ULICTekInc.AcerSense5.0_5.0.1844.0_x64__nt9dgb7efx6bt, changDe folder owner to yourself, then add read/exec permission for yourself, then send program app/AcerSense.exe to desktop(create shortcut).
The change permission steps are a bit complex, so I will not explain it here. But you can find it on Google search.
Annoying Overlay
When you press CapsLock, you will see an overlay:
This is completely unnecessary. Also, it interfers with my keyboard change: swap CapsLock and Ctrl.
The solution: stop the service Acer Quick Access, and change its start type to “Mannual”.
By the way, here is how you swap CapsLock and Ctrl:
download PowerToys, and use Keyboard manager.
update: QuickAccess is also managing fan, so disable it cause fan to be noisy again…
AcerRegistrationBackgroundTask.exe has stopped working!
When in doubt, run Process Monitor.
This happens after I have logged into computer for sometime. So I opened a ProcMon session:
seems this was started by backgroundTaskHost.exe. So what is it? Ask Google:
So its the background task for UWP app. then how to disable it?
So the solution:
