Windows XP sans Tablet PC Edition

[Tim Mulholland]

We have a rather odd problem (well, i expect its odd).
We have a Tablet PC (from Gateway) that we are adding our software to and
configuring for our customers. It has Windows XP Tablet PC Edition preloaded
of course.
One of our customers wishes to have Traditional Chinese on his computer. He
sent us a copy of Windows XP Traditional Chinese version to install. But
this will cause us to lose the functionality of the Tablet PC...
So my question is "how much" will we lose? Will they still be able to use
the Stylus as a mouse, just not have the keyboard/pad for writing, etc? Or
will the stylus not work at all either?
We looked at the Multilingual User Interface Packs, but we are hesitant to
ask the customer to spend more money when he already sent the version of XP.

Thanks in advance,

Tim

 

[Jordan Mills]

There is a way to "convert" an xp install to xp tablet. It involves making
a CAB file available and using at tablet pc install key. Google for this.

 

[Peter Sumner]

We have a rather odd problem (well, i expect its odd).
We have a Tablet PC (from Gateway) that we are adding our software to and
configuring for our customers. It has Windows XP Tablet PC Edition preloaded
of course.
One of our customers wishes to have Traditional Chinese on his computer. He
sent us a copy of Windows XP Traditional Chinese version to install. But
this will cause us to lose the functionality of the Tablet PC...
So my question is "how much" will we lose? Will they still be able to use
the Stylus as a mouse, just not have the keyboard/pad for writing, etc? Or
will the stylus not work at all either?
We looked at the Multilingual User Interface Packs, but we are hesitant to
ask the customer to spend more money when he already sent the version of XP.

How about installing the free recognizer pack for tablet PC
<http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/tabletpc/multilanguagecd.asp>?

Installing the non-tablet XP will lose (AFAIK) all of the tablet
functionality, the stylus, voice and handwriting recognition.

 

[J. Tennyson Einstein]

MS Office 2002 and 2003 have handwriting components. Not system-wide but I
think they can be used with regular apps. And windows accessibility has an
on screen keyboard if you run osk.exe.

You won't have journal unless you can do that "conversion" that someone else
mentioned.

--
J. Tennyson Einstein
Einstein Technologies

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[Chris De Herrera]

Hi,
If you install the Wacom drivers from www.wacom.com you can use the stylus
as a mouse. I haven't tried this with XP Traditional Chinese to see if the
config screens are in English still.

Also, if you want to use the pop-up keyboard without the Tablet PC OS, try
using the on screen keyboard whic is part of the acessibility tools.
(Start - Run - OSK). I do not know if it will pop up in Chinese or not
though.

--
Chris De Herrera
http://www.cewindows.net
http://www.tabletpctalk.com
http://www.cewindows.net/faqs/t-shootactivesync.htm - ActiveSync
Troubleshooting Guide

 

[Guest]

AFAIK, there's a MUI pack that lets you switch from English to Tradition
Chinese interface, most of all it doesn't lose functionality of Tablets

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc