I've got an HP Tx1327 running Vista. While it isn't the speediest thing
around, it seems to work fine, stable, etc. It came with Home Premium, and I
haven't seen the need to upgrade. I obviously can't join a domain at home,
but I can access the server file shares and my exchange server by just
supplying the appropriate credentials. I'm running Office 2007 on it as
well.

Have you tried just rebuilding the thing from the recovery disks you surely
made, and applying SP1 right away?

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Sven
MVP Mobile Devices
"Flinders" <Flinders@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2024EFF6-DF21-47E6-BAD4-49B897674B5A@microsoft.com...
> 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]
>>