Hi All,

I've been reading the continuous M200 saga for weeks now and I seriously want to go back to my dear old IBM Thinkpad's. They've never let me down, not even in orbit. I always thought of Toshiba being the best laptop manufacturer, but OK enough of this. My question is is fairly simple.

I'm NOT using any of TabletPC functionalities and since they claim a large portion of my memory & PC capacity I want to remove the complete set TabletPC extensions. Is there a simple way to do this?


Regards

Robert
The Netherlands

PS, Perhaps the best alternative is walking around in Amsterdam; for sure a junky will rip me from my Toshiba. Then he’s the one with the enormous headache wondering why this PC is incredibly slow. Mhh,.. :blink:

Well first up, I'm not entirely sure what exactly the problems you are having with the M200 are. Mine is lightning fast, far faster than any thinkpads I've ever owned, and definately on a par with the Dell Inspiron XPS notebook monster I own. It sounds very much to me like you have some crap running in the background on that machine (spyware, virus, errant database server, some form of file indexer etc etc) that's slowing it down. Also, try defragging the hard disk and possibly also upgrade to a gig of memory. Keeping a nice defragged disk keeps the machine zipping along nicely, as it does with any notebook, and the more memory you've got, the better.

It may also sound like a really dumb suggestion but have you checked that you not permanently running the machine in low power usage mode?

Now, assuming you want to remove the Tablet PC stuff from the machine, that would effectively mean you want to switch over to using WIndows XP Pro (which is Tablet PC without the Tablet stuff). That would require another license. Simply whizz down to your local software stockist, hand over a wad of cash for Windows XP Pro, dash home and install it. Simple.

Personally, I'd be more inclined to figure out through reading, research etc etc just why the machine is running so slowly, and then fix it, but I'm weird like that.

Hi Froogle,

Thanks for the follow-up about the performance of my M200. It changed (in positive) over the last 2 weeks. I removed a lot of the unused Tablet-PC stuff, defragged the harddrive, remove GoogleDesktop (huge performance killer!!!!) and more of those. My PC is/was virusfree and the same about spyware and others. I checked the power-settings but those where/are on High-Performance.

I suggest to close this topic.

I'm glad the performance you're getting improved.

I have a 101 things on a tech to-do list I have for things to research and blog about. At some point I have to add "Getting your PC running like new WITHOUT reinstalling Windows" to that list I think.