Safe Mode is what it implies - safety. What it does is remove unnecessary
items from possibly interfering with the clean installation of the driver.
It gives us the best possible method of installing a new driver. You don't
need to worry about the network being on at all, because you don't need it.
Safe Mode offers whether you want networking or not. Since you don't need
to do anything on the LAN so unless you're getting your file from a
different machine, select Without Networking.

Remember, Windows XP is much different from perhaps one of the Windows 9x
operating systems. In Device Manager, there's Roll Back Driver, which is a
safety net (in addition to System Restore) for moving to a previously good
driver, in case a "beta version" one goes belly up.

Mickey, my thinking is if you haven't tried reinstalling the drivers, you
don't know if there's a bit of corruption in there which might be fixed. If
it doesn't fix the issue, then at least we'll know the drivers are very good
for your system, and there's something else amiss. Then you can go to the
"wait" mode. 8-)
--
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In memory of a true friend, Windows MVP Alex Nichol

Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Mickey Segal" <not_monitored@example.com> wrote in message
news:OQpHumHQFHA.3496@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I'm always nervous about fiddling around with drivers and safe mode.
>
> I wonder if something time-dependent in the boot process accounts for the
> delay, for example logging into our wireless network.
>
> Another approach is not to use Ink Desktop until Microsoft gets it working
> properly. From the various references in the documentation to the orange
> screen it is clear they are talking their way around a glitch, but I don't
> know enough to know why this was nontrivial to fix.
>
> "Chris H." <winxpnews********.com> wrote in message
> news:eLB0UIHQFHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Okay, that's the original for the Motion 1300 (still the only one),
>> although the 5-27-03 version on Motion's site is listed as 6.13.01.3510.
>> You might try downloading that one fresh
>> (http://www.motioncomputing.com/suppo...nload_1300.asp) and do a
>> reinstall with the fresh download in Safe Mode.
>>
>> The 4.82-9a Wacom driver, updated last December, is available for
>> download here: http://www.wacom.com/tabletpc/driver.cfm .
>>
>> One of the reasons I recommend reinstalling the newer drivers (or
>> reinstalling the only available ones) in Safe Mode is that XP SP2 make a
>> huge amount of changes in the Registry when we updated to that, and not
>> all drivers reacted properly after coming through the upgrade.
>
>