[isapros] Re: OT: Upgrading Tablets to Vista
- From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 10:08:39 -0500
Main reason to get Ultimate over Business is that you don't get
BitLocker with Business. But, since you probably don't have a TPM chip
in your PadPC, you probably don't need that.
Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald G. Young
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:47 AM
To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [isapros] Re: OT: Upgrading Tablets to Vista
If it was me, I'd load Ultimate, which is what I did on my home
system. J
You aren't going to be able to use Home Basic, though, since
that version doesn't support Tablet PCs. Business is probably better
for you than Home Premium, too, because of the support tools you have
access to in Business, not to mention only Business, Enterprise, and
Ultimate versions can be added to a domain.
For a high level overview of the differences in version, check
out the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.m
spx?wt_svl=10033VHa2&mg_id=10033VHb2
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 10:22 AM
To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [isapros] Re: OT: Upgrading Tablets to Vista
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 <mailto:g.young@xxxxxxxx>
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 <mailto:g.young@xxxxxxxx>
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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