Thank you for your responses. I had been warned that I may acquire a few
problems in moving on to Vista. Looks like a waste of money at the moment.
Clearly I purchased a tablet PC (HP tx2011au) for a reason but until Vista
runs with more stability I think I'll get more functionality out of XP! Also
I'll get my firewire function back too! I f I keep the Vista on the original
harddrive I guess it will not be too painful to look at an upgrade at a later
date. Am I alone in finding a clean unsullied installation of Vista so poor?
I doubt I'll get downgrade OEM discs out of HP although they have sold such
systems in the past - they are yet to reply to any of my online questions
(both pre and post purchase!).
Might just buy a Mac next time

"Sven" wrote:

> The deal is that to get Tablet functionality you need XP Tablet Edition,
> which was never sold to consumers, only OEMs. Beyond that each manufacturer
> supplies drivers specific to a particular Tablet model. If HP didn't produce
> XP drivers for your model, you would be losing a lot of functionality.
>
> --
> Sven
> MVP Mobile Devices
> "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
> message news:%23p$CPApjIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > >> I have a copy of XP Pro with SP2. <<
> >
> > Suggest searching this forum as, in essence, the tablet functionality will
> > be lost if you go this route.
> >
> > Per the posts, your only legal option is to purchase an XP recovery disk
> > from the oem... if that is even possible.
> >
> > To search this group, use
> > http://groups.google.com/group/micro...tabletpc?hl=en
> >
> > Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>