Vista RTM on TC1100

I have been running Vista RTM on my TC1100 since Sunday and it has been working very well,  I had one issue with the Smart Fetch process stopping, but this would have been transparent to me if Vista hadn’t brought it to my attention.

A lot of drivers are downloaded via Windows Update including:

1. Wireless network driver (So down try and do the install over a wireless network)
2. Wacom driver (so don’t get worried when your touch screen doesn’t work)
3. NVIDIA display driver

However there have been a few annoyances that are driver related:

1. No Qmenu
2. No hardware buttons
3. Sound is not muted when you insert headphones or headset, i.e. it keeps playing out of the speakers as well as the headset
4. No SD card support (no fix for this that I can find)

you need to download the following drivers:

1. Sound http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/Compaqtabletpc/us/download/22542.html
   http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/Compaqtabletpc/us/download/22582.html
2. hardware buttons
   http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/Compaqtabletpc/us/download/19713.html
3. Q menu
   http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/Compaqtabletpc/us/download/22141.html

Extract them all, normally to c:\swsetup, and then right click on each setup program, pick properties and pick Windows XP SP2 from the compatibility tab.  I think one of the sound drivers will fail, but don’t worry it seems to get far enough to fix the problem (actually I suspect only one of the sound drivers is needed, but I didn’t have time to experiment).

I also found I had to do the following tweaks:

1. Some of the buttons didn’t work until I did the following, 
   1. Control panel
   2. Tablet PC settings
   3. Buttons tab
   4. Select each button in turn
   5. Click change
   6. Click OK  (this seems to assign the action, even though it appears correct already)
2. In my case my screen would rotate from portrait to landscape but not from landscape to portrait, I fixed this as follows:
   1. Control panel
   2. Tablet PC settings
   3. Display tab
   4. Sequence – change
   5. I just swapped the sequence round and saved it and it then worked fine

The final issue that I had was that Foxit Reader (an alternative PDF reader which is much faster and reliable than Adobes version) wouldn’t open in the browser.  Which I fixed as follows:

Using your favourite registry editor Navigate to

My Computer
|___HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
…….|___MIME
……………|___DATABASE
…………………..|___Content Type (thx for the headsup)
………………………..|___application/pdf <- click this key once

and then look in the right pane if there is an entry with the name
‘CLSID’ and its data set to {14E8BBD8-1D1C-4D56-A4DA-D20B75EB814E}
might as well make sure there is also an entry ‘Extension’ with .pdf as data

Hacking around trying to fix this problem I also got very frustrated by the fact that the file types dialog in Vista is over simplified but I managed to find the wonderful Creative Element Power Tools which adds back an even better file type associations editor but also some other amazing utilities.