“Both of these programmes will ensure that PIF and its portfolio companies embed local content considerations in our activities and operations which will contribute directly towards developing local industries and building long-term supplier and vendor partnerships, thereby strengthening local capabilities, enhancing the competitiveness of local players, improving supply chain resilience, and stimulating innovation in the Saudi economy,” said Jerry Todd, head of the National Development Division at PIF. The hub is now live and contains more than 100 opportunities and will be continuously enhanced and updated. The last initiative, the private sector hub, offers a dedicated platform to share supplier and investment opportunities with the private sector. The wealth fund will hold vendor boot camps this year for the contracting sector to help tier 2 and tier 3 contractors prepare their companies to qualify as vendors. I just hope with my luck that the shop can fix my laptop so that I can get back to work.PIF said its suppliers development strategy is geared towards supporting the development and upskilling of local suppliers and vendors to meet the growing requirements of the fund portfolio companies. So all in all, I have three major problems with my laptop because of my stupidity of not keeping disk image backups and using Iobit's highly dangerous driver updating software. I'm taking my seven month old laptop to the shop tomorrow to get it fixed. My eyes hurt and I'm literally having a headache from this. Now the brightness control isn't working and there is no Wifi setting). It still didn't make the touchpad work, even after updating all the windows updates and again installing the driver. I formatted the disk and installed the system fresh from the DVD, hoping it would solve the problem (I've been kicking myself ever since for not making disk image backups). I installed the touchpad driver for the model from the Acer website in vain.

After the system restarted, my Acer ES1-411 model laptop's touchpad stopped working.

It updated some drivers and asked to restart.

I used Iobit's Driver Booster to update drivers. I just wanted to share my frustration, anger and sadness.

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