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Finally running this at work

Finally running this at work on one of our lab notebooks that I use to manage our servers, and wanting to do the same on my HP mini note 2133. Just for the new Windows management features I like Win7!! I already have the partitions set the way I like on the 2133, and GRUB is now booting XP/Ubuntu. Questions:

1. Installing Win7 will screw up by GRUB bootloader environment no doubt, but more importantly will grub chainload through Win 7 boot the same as XP?

2. Probably not recommended, but would it be better to "upgrade" XP to Win 7, or is there even a path for that, or must you have Vista?

I'd like to preserve XP files/apps and settings as much as possible to both Ubuntu and XP, but also want to run Win 7. What do you recommend?

I was able to get rotation

I was able to get rotation and D3D accelleration working on my TC1100 in Windows 7. After some searching online, I noticed that when the 84.43 drivers were first released, someone was having nv4_mini.sys related BSODs. Downgrading to version 82.12 fixed the BSOD for him, so I thought I'd give it a try.

I completely uninstalled 84.43. Then I downloaded 82.12 from http://www.driverheavendownloads.net/nvidia.htm and copied hpqvdisp.dll and the modified nv4_disp.inf (with Rotateflag instances changed to 0x40) to the same directory. After installing, it no longer crashed on D3D or movie playback!

Just an update that normal

Just an update that normal avi video playback can be restored in wmp by a 3 step workaround.. d3d tweak, disable foundation mpeg4 and reinstate ffdshow codecs, revert wmp 12 to its basic (aka corporate) skin. Now your tc1100 is all good for video playback of avis, including fullscreen. More details at my post here;

http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/showthread.php?t=36154&page=4

Astro

I can't wait to install this

I can't wait to install this stuff on my notebook. will do as soon as quaddro videocards will work with it. thank you for this nice review. I hope that final version won't be much slower than beta

I’ve tested the

I’ve tested the following apps:

SOTI pocket Controller 6.01 (needed to switch back to normal mode)

VirtualCE 4.0.4 (albeit, at first, it didn’t want to connect)

MyMobiler 1.23 06152008

EveryWAN Remote Support 3.0.15760 (everything works, including the registry editor)

mDesktop http://www.motionapps.com/product/mdesktop/index.jsp 2.1.1 (note that, while it could be installed on my HP TC1100 under W7, the same couldn’t be done on my t42p – the installer just crashed, displaying an application error. This applies to both W7 and Windows XP. It may dislike some Thinkpad-specific drivers – dunno.)

That is, everything works.

Thanks for clearing this up

Thanks for clearing this up - I thought it works the same as iTunes (iPhone), AS / WMDC (WinMo) or the BlackBerry Suite (BB). Will mention this in the forthcoming update of the article.

I don't think the Nokia

I don't think the Nokia Application Installer message is actually a problem with Windows 7. It's just that this functionality is not supported with N95. (see http://www.n95users.com/forum/symbian-s60v3/9570-application-installer-problem.html)

Great writeup... Have you

Great writeup... Have you tried any winmo remote control apps like soti or mymobiler with win7. Finally found my Mcp beta invite in my junk mail. Had problems downloading it at work so will try from home this weekend.

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