[isapros] Re: OT: Upgrading Tablets to Vista
- From: "Thor \(Hammer of God\)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 07:21:39 -0700
I'll give that a shot... I was going to have to reload the original in the
first place, so I might as well do my due diligence and see what happens.
Last Q then- what edition would you load? Home Basic? It's the Origami- the
business edition index is 1 at the moment - any insight on performance
differences between Home Basic and Business, or just price?
t
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald G. Young
To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:59 AM
Subject: [isapros] Re: OT: Upgrading Tablets to Vista
Well.
If nothing else, you can always attempt a clean install. I agree with Jim
about in-place upgrades and never do them because I don't want to bring over
all the legacy stuff that has only ever seemed to make a mess of the new OS
once it was installed.
There is a bit of a gotcha with Vista, though. If you purchased an "Upgrade"
package and perform a clean install (setup needs to be run keyless), when you
activate the OS and enter the Upgrade product key, you get a message stating
that the software you purchased can only be used to perform an in-place
upgrade, even though the package and documentation inside the package indicate
otherwise.
I had to call PSS to get around that.
But, it may be that natively (meaning clean install) Vista does a better job
with the hardware than it does when you slap it down on top of another OS.
Would be worth testing, at least, providing you have the time. ;)
Cordially yours,
Jerry G. Young II
Application Engineer, Platform Engineering and Architecture
NTT America, an NTT Communications Company
22451 Shaw Rd.
Sterling, VA 20166
Office: 571-434-1319
Fax: 703-333-6749
Email: g.young@xxxxxxxx
From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Thor (Hammer of God)
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:32 AM
To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [isapros] Re: OT: Upgrading Tablets to Vista
I did an upgrade, which is the "recommended" procedure, particularly for
software dependant functionality requirements... In device manager, everything
shows as working, however, nothing "works." The touch screen is completely
disabled, yet it shows up fine in device manager. The upgrade advisor runs
automatically-- the first thing it did was say that I had to uninstall Norton
AV (which came with the system). After doing that and restarting (a lengthy
process, actually) the advisor came up with "there may be issues, but nothing
that will keep you from upgrading."
However, I've found some cached docs in Google on MSFT that talk about
setting up the input devices and such (after touting how much easier and more
enabled tablet PC's are after installing Vista).
It was smart enough to tell me that I couldn't upgrade from XP Tablet to Home
Basic, so you would think that it would know if there were issues with going to
Business with Tablet.
But I'll see if there is anything I can do in Control Panel to get the touch
screen working- but I have to attach an external keyboard/mouse to do that
(fortunately I've got one with my Origami).
Thanks for the help- I'll see if what pans out.
t
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald G. Young
To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:23 AM
Subject: [isapros] Re: OT: Upgrading Tablets to Vista
T,
Did you perform a clean install or did you perform an in-place upgrade?
If you open up Device Manager, are there any devices that appear either as
disabled, driver unknown, or not working?
Did you check help to see if you needed to "enable" the tablet features?
Did you run the Upgrade Advisor against the system to see if it detected
any issues, potential or otherwise?
Just a few questions that came to mind.
Jerry
From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Thor (Hammer of God)
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 4:19 PM
To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [isapros] OT: Upgrading Tablets to Vista
Anyone had any luck upgrading XP Tablet system to Vista? I've got the
Samsung NP-Q1 which was running XP Tablet 2005. I actually gave several to my
girlfriend because I wanted to be the only guy to give her multiple Origami's.
yuk yuk. Anyway, after upgrading to Vista Business (you can't upgrade to
home) it worked, but none of the table functions work at all. I thought Vista
was supposed to handle all that for me, but it just left me with a useless
tablet in my hands.
Any insight would be great. No, there is nothing for Vista on the Samsung
site. Thx
t
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