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From: Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] on 19 Feb 2008 15:51
>> should be no problem right? <<

Tablet's not the same animal as a notebook... the windows os is
different... so, short answer, no.

If you elect to go anyway, be sure you have a _full_ image backup or oem
restore disks... you will need them when you come back.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]


From: Sven on 19 Feb 2008 22:32
I would disagree with Bev on this. If your tablet OEM provides drivers for
Vista on their web site, and the laptop is already running Vista, it should
be no issue to load a clean version of Vista (different flavor) and then add
the drivers. If you were to just upgrade, it would be even simpler, as the
hardware specific drivers would just remain in place. I understand you
already have the new full version of Vista to which you wish to upgrade.

If you had XP and wanted to go to Vista, I would not be as sure. But since
you are already running Vista, and the tablet drivers exist, and are proven,
and can be accessed, there is no reason they shouldn't work on a different
version of Vista. You will in fact find that most of the tablet functions
swill work right after install. The touch screen will likely function
normally. The drivers will likely be needed for things like assigning the
tablet specific buttons, and controlling what happens when you go into
tablet mode, i.e. default to portrait in tablet, and landscape in laptop,
for example.

Do however follow Bev's advice and make those restore CDs/DVDs that most
current systems provide the ability to do. They are priceless.


--
Sven
MVP Mobile Devices
"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
message news:uWJBskzcIHA.1376(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >> should be no problem right? <<
>
> Tablet's not the same animal as a notebook... the windows os is
> different... so, short answer, no.
>
> If you elect to go anyway, be sure you have a _full_ image backup or oem
> restore disks... you will need them when you come back.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>
>

From: Chris H on 20 Feb 2008 00:36
The Windows operating system, in this case Vista, is not really any
different than what already is there. What is different is that in certain
versions of Vista (like Ultimate) there are Tablet functionalities already
built in. Unlike Windows XP Pro, Tablet functionalities are already
included. In XP Pro, on a Tablet PC, you would have had the Tablet PC
Edition "superset" which ran on top of XP Pro.

If the machine already contains (check with the OEM) the proper hardware for
Tablet functionalities, such as the pen digitizer, then there should be no
problems.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
http://forums.mobilepcworld.net
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
message news:uWJBskzcIHA.1376(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >> should be no problem right? <<
>
> Tablet's not the same animal as a notebook... the windows os is
> different... so, short answer, no.
>
> If you elect to go anyway, be sure you have a _full_ image backup or oem
> restore disks... you will need them when you come back.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>
>

From: Daniel on 20 Feb 2008 09:21
Hello

I've read all your posts and I will follow Beverly's advice making restore
CD's, and then I will install Vista Ultimate on my friend's Tablet.

Thank you to Beverly, Sven and Chris for all your help :)

Best regards

Daniel

"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" wrote:

> >> should be no problem right? <<
>
> Tablet's not the same animal as a notebook... the windows os is
> different... so, short answer, no.
>
> If you elect to go anyway, be sure you have a _full_ image backup or oem
> restore disks... you will need them when you come back.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>
>
>
From: Chris H on 20 Feb 2008 10:02
It really should be fairly easy and straight-forward. It just takes a
pretty long time, so be patient and don't force it.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
http://forums.mobilepcworld.net
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

"Daniel" <Daniel(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> I've read all your posts and I will follow Beverly's advice making restore
> CD's, and then I will install Vista Ultimate on my friend's Tablet.
>
> Thank you to Beverly, Sven and Chris for all your help :)
>
> Best regards
>
> Daniel
>
> "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" wrote:
>
>> >> should be no problem right? <<
>>
>> Tablet's not the same animal as a notebook... the windows os is
>> different... so, short answer, no.
>>
>> If you elect to go anyway, be sure you have a _full_ image backup or oem
>> restore disks... you will need them when you come back.
>>
>> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>>
>>
>>

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