I mentioned in another post that I had performed a clean install of Vista Ultimate on the HP tc1100 and given it to my wife. She is quite happily using it and everything in Vista is working perfectly and quite snappily. Granted, you don’t get the eye candy stuff like Aero Glass or the fancy Flip 3D and the like because it has the 915 graphics chipset that is forever banished from fully running Vista. It doesn’t matter to my wife and to tell you the truth I have all of that turned off on the Fujitsu P1610 anyway for better performance. A number of you have contacted me to find out what is required to install Vista on the tc1100 so I thought I’d outline the process here. It’s a lot easier than you think.
First of all, if at all possible wipe the tc1100 clean and installfresh, that way you won’t have any questions about the process in theevent something doesn’t work. Install Vista on the tc1100 and ifpossible connect it to your network via a wired ethernet since thewireless won’t be working yet. With a good network connection do aWindows Update after the install and all hardware drivers will downloadand install. I didn’t have to install any drivers manually and oncethe Update completed everything worked with the exception of the Q Menuutility and the buttons on the slate. Never fear, these are easilyinstalled. Download and install the latest version of both of theseitems from the tc1100 support site.Install the Button Driver first followed by the Q Menu. Make sure whenyou install them you run them as Administrator and in Windows XPcompatibility mode via the right-click menu. If you get a weird errormessage running Q Menu just install it again, for some reason itdoesn’t always take the first time.
That’s it, your tc1100 should be fully Vistamized, although as Iwrite this I realize I never tested the SD slot. If yours doesn’t workyou should install the driver for that from the HP site too. Happyslating!
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