Just thought I would post a quick message about installing Vista on the
TC1100.

I got the release version from MSDN yesterday and installed it on my
trusty TC1100 (1Ghz Cel M, 1.25 Gb) and it is working great. No Aero
though.

Only problem I have encountered is that it is no longer possible to
turn down the brightness via the Q Menu and I cannot find anywhere else
to do it, so battery life is affected.

Other then that everything I have done so far works great.

I am just installing Office 2007 to see what One Note is like.

Neil

It sounds like you did it as an upgrade, but I had a similar problem on my
laptop.
Vista blocks a LOT of startup services/programs from running, and one of
those happened to be my background app that enables my laptop's hardware
buttongs (some that I never use like e-mail/tv/help, and some that I need
like volume/wifi-on-off/brightness).

Try reinstalling the software for it.


- Skeene

"NWeller" wrote:

> Just thought I would post a quick message about installing Vista on the
> TC1100.
>
> I got the release version from MSDN yesterday and installed it on my
> trusty TC1100 (1Ghz Cel M, 1.25 Gb) and it is working great. No Aero
> though.
>
> Only problem I have encountered is that it is no longer possible to
> turn down the brightness via the Q Menu and I cannot find anywhere else
> to do it, so battery life is affected.
>
> Other then that everything I have done so far works great.
>
> I am just installing Office 2007 to see what One Note is like.
>
> Neil
>
>

NWeller shared these words of wisdom:

Sorry forgot something important...

> I am just installing Office 2007 to see what One Note is like.

There's a special NG with really helpful people:
news://msnews.microsoft.public.onennote

mirrored with a web interface:
Office Discussion Groups | OneNote | General Questions
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...&lang=en&cr=US
also:
http://groups.google.de/group/micros...nk=gschg&hl=en

Rainald

NWeller shared these words of wisdom:

> Just thought I would post a quick message about installing Vista on
> the TC1100.

Thanks a lot, Neil!

Did you just update the existing system or make a fresh install from
scratch?

> I got the release version from MSDN yesterday and installed it on my
> trusty TC1100 (1Ghz Cel M, 1.25 Gb) and it is working great. No
> Aero though.

The latter is natural with the small amont video-RAM the tc1100 has.

> Only problem I have encountered is that it is no longer possible to
> turn down the brightness via the Q Menu and I cannot find anywhere
> else to do it, so battery life is affected.

Is the Menu-item in the Q-Menu no longer there or is it just no longer
functional?

> Other then that everything I have done so far works great.

Great. This encorouges me to ask our IT-department to get me the now
finalized package and then run to install it my tc1100.

> I am just installing Office 2007 to see what One Note is like.

Do so!!
It's a fantastic application and the most used thing on my machine

Thanks again
Rainald

Rainald Taesler wrote:
> NWeller shared these words of wisdom:
>
> > Just thought I would post a quick message about installing Vista on
> > the TC1100.
>
> Thanks a lot, Neil!
>
> Did you just update the existing system or make a fresh install from
> scratch?
>

I did an upgrade, I was happy that if it went wrong I could reinstall
but wanted to do an upgrade to start with to avoid any hassle.

> > I got the release version from MSDN yesterday and installed it on my
> > trusty TC1100 (1Ghz Cel M, 1.25 Gb) and it is working great. No
> > Aero though.
>
> The latter is natural with the small amont video-RAM the tc1100 has.

Yeah, don't think it really matters anyway.

>
> > Only problem I have encountered is that it is no longer possible to
> > turn down the brightness via the Q Menu and I cannot find anywhere
> > else to do it, so battery life is affected.
>
> Is the Menu-item in the Q-Menu no longer there or is it just no longer
> functional?
>

The Q menu comes up but when the brightness option is selected nothing
happens, no message box appears saying to use the jog dial. At that
point other parts of the OS starts to play up which I think is related.

> > Other then that everything I have done so far works great.
>
> Great. This encorouges me to ask our IT-department to get me the now
> finalized package and then run to install it my tc1100.
>
> > I am just installing Office 2007 to see what One Note is like.
>
> Do so!!
> It's a fantastic application and the most used thing on my machine

Yeah, I liked the 2003 versio so am now getting used to the new one.
The only issue I had with the 2007 install (upgrade) was that it will
not upgrade Outlook 2003. Looks like an uninstall and install for
that.

>
> Thanks again
> Rainald

No probs,
Neil

"NWeller" <neil.weller******.com> wrote in message
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> Just thought I would post a quick message about installing Vista on the
> TC1100.
>
> I got the release version from MSDN yesterday and installed it on my
> trusty TC1100 (1Ghz Cel M, 1.25 Gb) and it is working great. No Aero
<snip>

Hi Neil

I have the RTM of Business Edition on my 1 Ghz 1.5 GB RAM TC1100.

The brightness still doesn't work, even with the Q Menu installed. The jog
dial doesn't work either!

I think overall, it works quite well - I just need to be able to adjust the
brightness to save battery life!

If you find a brightness solution please get in touch!

"s n u f f y" <invalid@address.co.uk.za> wrote in message
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>
> Hi Neil
>
> I have the RTM of Business Edition on my 1 Ghz 1.5 GB RAM TC1100.
>
> The brightness still doesn't work, even with the Q Menu installed. The jog
> dial doesn't work either!
>
> I think overall, it works quite well - I just need to be able to adjust
> the brightness to save battery life!
>
> If you find a brightness solution please get in touch!

Vista Enterprise Release on TC1100 - my experience:

Did not work:
External monitor
Brightness Control
Vista Movie Maker (complains about directx10 card)
Aero Glass
SD Card Reader

Warnings:
Slingbox player gave warnings about being incompatible, but it worked
fine nonetheless

Office 2007 release, incuding OneNote 2007, worked fine under Vista, as you
would probalby expect. They also work fine under tablet 2005 (but Onenote
2007 will not ink on tablet versions under 2005, so if you want to use it on
non-vista versions SP2 is in your future...)

Everything else did that I can remember, including the jog control.
However, it did require going to the HP website and downloading XP drivers
to get some items to work. I do have to say that I ended up going back to
Tablet PC 2005 for now, at least until better driver support catches up. I
really needed the brightness control for power management and night use.
The others I can do without.

To others out there - It might be interesting to note that you will need a
wired lan connection after installation in order to get the wireless driver
for the machine. So pan accordingly if you decide to upgrade.

Thanks a lot for your report!
Most useful for decision making.

"xTenn" <xTennRemoveThisPart@tds.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Office 2007 release, including OneNote 2007, worked fine under
> Vista, as you would probably expect. They also work fine under
> tablet 2005 (but Onenote 2007 will not ink on tablet versions under
> 2005, so if you want to use it on non-vista versions SP2 is in your
> future...)

Different with the latter on my side.
I've been using Office and OneNote Betas since April and I now have
the RTM of "Office Pro Plus 2007" and Onenote 2007 installed on my
tc1100 under "XP SP2 TabletPC Edition".
Ink works in ON without any problem.
Did not test it with the rest of office so far.

Rainald
P.S. Did you over-install or make a fresh install from scratch?

"Rainald Taesler" <taesler@gmx.de> wrote in message
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>
> "xTenn" <xTennRemoveThisPart@tds.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:OoJjZAoEHHA.4404@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>
>(but Onenote 2007 will not ink on tablet versions under
>> 2005, so if you want to use it on non-vista versions SP2 is in your
>> future...)
>
> Different with the latter on my side.
> I've been using Office and OneNote Betas since April and I now have the
> RTM of "Office Pro Plus 2007" and Onenote 2007 installed on my tc1100
> under "XP SP2 TabletPC Edition".
> Ink works in ON without any problem.
>

Poor phrasing on my part - One Note 2007 will not ink on tablet windows OS
BEFORE tablet 2005, ( not UNDER 2005 ). It inks fine for me on Windows
Tablet 2005, which incorporates SP2.


>P.S. Did you over-install or make a fresh install from scratch?

I ended up installing Vista first from an upgrade, then from scratch - out
of morbid curiosity and self-loathing, not to mention some very misguided
experimentation with various legacy drivers (and still no brightness
control). Both worked the same, no problems. Interesting to note that the
upgrade did indeed seem to take a great deal longer.

xTenn shared these words of wisdom:

>> Ink works in ON without any problem.
>
> Poor phrasing on my part - One Note 2007 will not ink on tablet
> windows OS BEFORE tablet 2005, ( not UNDER 2005 ). It inks fine
> for me on Windows Tablet 2005, which incorporates SP2.

Oh I see. Thanks for the clarification.

>> P.S. Did you over-install or make a fresh install from scratch?
>
> I ended up installing Vista first from an upgrade, then from
> scratch - out of morbid curiosity and self-loathing, not to mention
> some very misguided experimentation with various legacy drivers
> (and still no brightness control).

Thanks.
Think I'll try it both ways too - just to see how things work.
The brightness control is an important issue AFAICS.
We can only pray that Mr Hewlett & Mrs Packard will think of us users
of old hardware ;-)

> Both worked the same, no
> problems. Interesting to note that the upgrade did indeed seem to
> take a great deal longer.

Does not take wonder, IMHO.
The migration tools have quite something to do ...

Thnaks again
Rainald

I installed the Q menu and the brightness feature works fine for me.

I used the drivers from HPs site I had downloaded today, set up compatibility on the install file for Windows XP SP2, selected the option to run the .exe as administrator and ran the file as per normal.

"blueeyesm" <pnrthomp@cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message
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>
> I installed the Q menu and the brightness feature works fine for me.
>
> I used the drivers from HPs site I had downloaded today, set up
> compatibility on the install file for Windows XP SP2, selected the
> option to run the .exe as administrator and ran the file as per normal.
>

Just to verify - you have adjustable brightness contol through qmenu (you
can see the brightness difference) on a TC1100 running Vista?

From my understanding it would not change anything to set up the install
file itself as being xp SP2 compatible, but if this is correct you have had
different results... may have to adjust my understanding... ;)