Lawrence's Vista Installation Notes on the HP TC1100
Initial installation
- went smoothly, booted off an external DVD drive with the Vista x86 Installation DVD
- chose to overwrite the existing drive (after making a Ghost backup of my XP installation)
- gave our technet Vista Ultimate serial number
- set it for English (Canada)
- Let 'er rip
First Impressions
- Looks very pretty
- cool "Gadgets" feature - looks a lot like the Mac's
- hard to find the Command Prompt
- in the end, I did a search for 'command prompt', found it and assigned a hot key - Ctrl-Alt-D
- finds my network card ok, but not the wireless card
- video driver very basic and doesn't support screen rotation
- I think I need to go back and install original HP drivers
Adding Drivers
- tried running the driver installation CD that came with the TC1100 -> no good
- it says that the Installation software is not compatible
- Tried installing the Wireless Driver for the new wireless card (HP wireless LAN W400-W500)
- seemed to go ok, but didn't see any change. Tried rebooting ...
- no good ... Device Manager sees Unknown Ethernet Device
- Found something that works!
- right-click on the Unknown Device, click on "Update Driver Software"
- click "Browse My Computer"
- make sure the driver CD is in the drive, then have it browse the CD drive
- that worked to install the Wireless LAN card (HP WLAN W500) and the Pen Buttons! (using the original "Driver Recovery CD")
- I've seen a number of people report problems getting the buttons to work - they're working for me now!
- Q-Menu installation worked right from the Setup option off the CD
- I gtried force-loading all of the drivers off the Drivers CD to see if I could get wireless working - that completely killed the system so that it would only boot in Safe Mode - so I re-did the whole installation
Windows Update
- tried running Windows Update
- "Check for Updates"
- "Windows could not search for new updates" -> Error(s) found: Code 80072F8F
- I tried turning off the firewall - didn't help ...
other observations
- Menus seem hard to find (eg: in Internet Explorer and Explorer)
- Security - seems to be good about asking for permission to do "System" things
- Internet Time - couldn't get that to work - it always says an error occurred. Could it be a firewall issue?
Installing Software
- Office: Phil says that we have Technet licenses for Office 2007
- I want to change the default View to display extensions ... where is that?
Networking setup
- So, where's the list of devices? Now that I have my wireless card (I think), where do I see it? It does show up in the Device Manager now.
- I think the problem here is that it isn't turned on. I don't have the option to turn Wireless Off or On in the Q-Menu. The little wireless light isn't on, so nothing seems to see it, except the Device Manager. NetStumbler sees it, but it detects no networks.
Security
- My user is setup as an Administrator, but it doesn't give Administrator privileges automatically - it prompts for them - at least, for programs that know to do that. An older program (NetStumbler) didn't give me access to my Administrator privileges, but I solved that by using "Run as Administrator"
-- LawrenceFolland - 20 Dec 2006