After a few days of trial and error with various installs, I have finally gotten it to work correctly and install the files that give the tablet pen functionality. Since school is next Monday and I have a lot of things to do to prepare for next semester’s classes, I won’t be able to get down much documenation of what I did for a while. If you’re interested in re-installing the Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005 OS of your Tecra M7, check back in a week or two. I hope to have the documentation up before then, but I make no promises.
I have to say that there is quite an improvement after re-installing the OS – my machine can do a full-boot to the desktop (auto-logon enabled) in under a minute, usually around 30-40 seconds. This is a vast improvement compared to the 5+ minutes for a factory fresh install, or the 3+ minutes after I tweaked it some. It also runs considerably smoother once it is booted up – 42 processses running at the moment, and I’m sure there were probably 70+ from a factory OEM install. If you know your way around Windows XP and aren’t afraid of tweaking your OS, then I definitely recommend that you re-install the OS as I did.
Just as a pointer to resources that I used as reference material:
- Reinstalling Windows XP Tablet Edition at Tangled Up in Purple
- Lenovo: How to: Clean Install of Windows XP Tablet Edition at Gottabemobile
There are a lot of links that jump off from these articles, and there isn’t any clear one way to resolve a lot of the problems with installing on a Toshiba machine, but if you’re willing to spend the time to figure it out, it’s worth it. I hope to provide a more coherent, simplified guide once I have the time.
[update 2007-03-12]
If you haven’t noticed already, at the top of this page is about “Installing WinXP TE: 2005 on the M7″. This the official page I’ve put together for documentation of this process, so there won’t be any more blog posts about this particular topic other than maybe brief mentions of changes or updates to the page itself. At the time of this update, it is still in a very basic stage – just a verbatim copy of an e-mail I sent to someone who asked for help with re-installing XP on their tablet. It can be improved, and hopefully will be at some point. I hope that it can be of some help in the form it is right now. Feel free to send questions or comments to my e-mail (anonym2.71828@gmail.com).
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