Hi,

I am new to tablet PC and have few problems with M200.

1. Network adapter 802.11g is very unreliable. I was afraid about
incompatibilities so took wifi router from Toshiba. Small hint from
them is that they do not sell it any more :-). When connection is
established, it never drops unless going out of range. But it is
difficult to establish it. After login/standby/hibernate/restart it
needs few times switch adapter off and on. I was using XP networking
and Intel own Pro Set with same problems. It says associated and Not
authenticated. Even when connection is established, adaptor does warn
with message "Network cable unplugged". Is this problem with Belkin
router or with client? Does anyone else have this problem? Setup is
WPA-PSK authentication with TKIP encryption. I called Toshiba with
"not our problem" result.

2. When using telnet, OS crashes to blue screen. It does not matter if
it is M$ telnet or Cygwin telnet. Workaround is not use telnet :-).
Luckily all servers I use does have sshd running.

3. It looks like there is no way to blank display when listening
radio. Even timed setup of hibernate or standby does not kick in. Even
if I switch display off manually, it goes back on in few seconds.
Result is that display is on and computer running all night for
nothing. Not sure how long it takes to LCD to worn out. I guess I will
end up with scripting shutdown utility with delay :-). Any other idea?

4. Some programs does have problems with right click. Menu would show,
but immediatelly disappear. Same with pen button. Is it any way to
switch right click to behave same way like on not tablet Windows?

5. Zooming utility does work with Internet Explorer, but not quite
well. Window could be zoomed, but new window opened would be back of
original size. Even just going to same page in same window go back to
original size. Zooming it again would make huge character on already
open windows. Changing DPI is honored only by some programs. IE would
ignore it on pages with fixed fonts like hotmail. I hope SP2 would
address that.

Is it any way to repair scratches of display? I did let my daughter
paint on it and if pen is too inclined, corner around tip makes marks.
It does not disturb much, though.

Is it normal that Toshiba CD burner would do 10x speed on CD-RW on
first burn and then only 2-4 on next burn?

Otherwise I am very satisfied with machine. It does more than 4 hours
on battery using Remote Desktop with constant use of wifi. Local speed
is amazing, too.

Stan

Well I don't know much about the other things.. But.. to turn the display
OFF and have it not come back on again.

If you tried to turn screen off via the Tablet Properties option, the act of
your pen retreating from the screen would be a mouse move and well.. turn
the screen back on again. ;)

A good way of shutting off the screen is to set under Toshiba Power Saver
Properties -> Setup Action -> On Close Lid -> Do nothing.

Now when you close the lid, your system doesn't stand by or do anythign..
but the screen will be turned off which should be what you want.

I've got mine set to turn off the screen in Power Options/Power Schemes,
"Turn off monitor."
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - www.sandpoint.net/creations
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

"Marauderz" <marauderz@marauderzTHROWAWAYstuff.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> Well I don't know much about the other things.. But.. to turn the display
> OFF and have it not come back on again.
>
> If you tried to turn screen off via the Tablet Properties option, the act
> of
> your pen retreating from the screen would be a mouse move and well.. turn
> the screen back on again. ;)
>
> A good way of shutting off the screen is to set under Toshiba Power Saver
> Properties -> Setup Action -> On Close Lid -> Do nothing.
>
> Now when you close the lid, your system doesn't stand by or do anythign..
> but the screen will be turned off which should be what you want.
>
>