Hi All,

I have been considering one of the modern Tablet PCs for some time, but am unfortunately a big cheapskate. For the purposes of evaluation, I recently bought (off ebay) a Fujitsu Stylistic 3400. this device came preloaded with what seems a very fresh install of NT4.0, with SP4 IE, and the pen computing drivers and applications. The device has the COA sticker on the back, so I think that much is legit even though no install media was included. On the front, is the “Designed for Windows 2000 Professional” sticker. 2K being my favorite of the MS operating systems, I decided to go with that after checking Fujitsu’s site and discovering drivers for everything I thought I would need.

Note: I removed the existing drive and stored it, knowing that a working NT system would be better that an inoperable 2k one.

… skip past the fumbling installation of 2k with no CD…

Next, I took my fresh install of 2K and loaded all the drivers, digitizer / pen, and my own 802.11b connectivity with very little problems. The audio doesn’t seem to work, but neither did it work on the NT install, I think it may be busted in hardware. I don’t care.

What is bothering me is that the application PenX was not included in the driver packages downloaded from Fujitsu. The driver installations seemed pretty old school, none seemed to launch an installer to create the group c:\program files\CIC\. I have confirmed that that directory does not exist via the explorer.

During my short use of the NT install, I found that some of the features are important, such as the clickable single button dialog to log on, and the keyboard that pops up at that time so a password can be entered, naturally, the ability to ink with the stylus and handwriting are pretty fundamental as well.

Can anyone tell me:
A) How to download an installable version of the PenX application?
-or-
B) If I take the stored drive and pull the c:\program files\CIC\ directory off of the NT install can I get it to work? Are there other dependencies such as dll’s in the system folder that need to go as well?

For now I just have it set to “assume this user” auto log on, and I use the win2K accessibility keyboard, this keyboard seems to eat up a little more of the real-estate than the PenX one.

I have searched, the web, this forum in particular, and Fujitsu’s site and all advice seems circular, the web leads me here, people asking similar questions are directed to Fujitsu, searching Fujitsu fails to unearth the application and I end up back on Google.


... later:
OK, I put the orignal drive in a pc as a slave and browsed into it. it seems that the directory \program files\CIC\ has only:
mousfltr.inf, mousfltr.sys, and a readme
The two system files look awfully familiar from my setup of the 2000 OS. The readme mentions NT control panel items that I do not have in the 2000 setup.

I guess the biggest problem is that I have no way to switch to inking mode, and consequently, no handwriting recognition.

What have I done wrong?