Thanks fot the Info. I will start the install this evening.

"Rainald Taesler" wrote:

> 257Roberts wrote:
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> > I just purchased a used IBM/Lenovo X41 tablet machine. It is running
> XP
> > Tablet. I am interested in trying out Windows 7 as a clean install on
> this
> > computer. Has anyone done this or have any ideas on the best way to
> get it
> > to working? I am somewhat familiar with the W7 install, I have it on
> a
> > Virtual Machine running on my desktop. If you have any ideas on the
> > installation on the X41, I would appreciate your reply.
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> I don't have an IBM/Lenovo but the other day I installed Win7 RC on my
> good old HP tc1100 (which had originally been running under XP TabletPC
> edition and later under Vista).
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> Most things worked fine immediately.
>
> In addition I had to install the COMPAQ/HP "Q-Menu" application (which
> offers a menu for most features when the "Q" hardware button is used.
> This needed the nNvidia graphics drivers (both from HP's XP downloads,
> HP does not offer any Vista things for my old model).
> Furthermore I installed the XP drivers for the TI card-reader. Although
> this is a trouble kid everything went fine in so far.
>
> What dose not work so far:
> Three of the hardware buttons (originally assigned for (a) rotation (b)
> TIP and (c) Windows Journal) are not operable. All other hardware
> buttons work fine.
>
> And there is one bigger problem:
> If the pen is moved to the utmost top (in landscape mode) resp. the
> utmost right (portrait mode) in an area of app. 9 mm the pen shows a
> terrible flickering and is not really functional. This does not happen
> in any other area of the screen.
> Calibration does not help.
> It could be that I has made a mistake when during the install the
> initial calibration screen came up where the outer birders had to be
> set.
> Therefore I will run a new install from scratch.
>
> As a possible advice:
> Check on Lenovo's site for the drivers and utilities both for XP and
> Vista and try them out in case something is missing in Win7.
>
> Rainald
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