[isapros] Re: OT: Upgrading Tablets to Vista
- From: "Thor \(Hammer of God\)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 08:08:23 -0700
No performance problems for ultimate? I've got ultimate on my business unit
here, and am about to load it on my HP Digital Media Center (the nice rack
system), but am concerned with performance on the Origami. I'm happy to put
ultimate on it, but just don't want to screw myself on performance. That being
said, it would be nice to be able to play my recorded stuff from the HP on the
Origami directly (without having to burn to DVD).
No big performance difference between Biz and Ultimate?
thx (and apologies to those bothered by the OT)
t
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald G. Young
To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:47 AM
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.mspx?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
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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