When I received access to Windows 7 Beta 1 last Thursday, I decided to give Windows 7 at try, as I had heard so many good things about its Tablet capabilities. Scratching my head about whether to install a fresh HD or to do an upgrade, I finally opted for the latter.
The upgrade from Vista Ultimate x64 went very smoothly, although it took some 2.5 hours, most of which was spent backing up and restoring my programs, all of which was done automatically.
My system ran fine, and all the programs worked, etc. Things started to unravel when I attempted to ink or touch. Touch was gone and could not be re-enabled, and inking was almost impossible, as the cursor would back and forth about 1/3 of an inch 3 or 4 times a second.
Additionally, I discovered that even though the screen would auto-rotate when I moved it, the pen stayed in the mode it was in when booted up. Not good!
So, after sleeping on it, I decided to reinstall, over the top of my existing installation, wiping out the current OS, but preserving my file system so that I would not have to move some 100GB of files back to the machine.
This time, it took about 15 minutes to accomplish and was stellar from the start! I installed the HP extensions for keys, etc. and this machine has be a joy to use! I have run into a couple of minor cosmetic quirks with Windows 7, but the stability and performance has been spectacular. I am very impressed! More to follow in the coming days…
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