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jamie said:

jamie said:

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so... so far

- doesnt support drawing in Painter, photoshop or corel

- art rage 2 it sort of works - it works great to control windows but this isnt meant for drawing.

- the cd from hp - ms didnt include... so i tried downloading that UI from hp - "cannot load on this OS bla bla"

- there is a factory restore drive - but no clear indication of how to get it to load (crazy non exe files)

- cannot get it to network to my main machine - same old story - everything is there - but when you click a drive says i dont have permission. i have loaded full permissions on everything - ive added the group "everyone"  every single setting that allows access ive turned on but no luck.  so all my videos and songs and pics are downstairs ... media centre is empty.

apart from above..(hahaha)  it truely IS a great PC... 

*boy do i miss xp - share c:\  ...and... it shares it!

Jamie, you are missing nothing from the HP app.  It looks kind of cool for about 35 seconds then 7 Trumps the heck out of it.  You can do a a factory restore from the boot screen, but would wipe out all of the MS Customizations. 

In short I wouldn't do it.

The notes app is basically sticky notes with a black vista gradient around it.  The calendar app is nifty and would love to see something like this built into 7 as well as some of the things in the touch pack baked in, instead of an incentive for OEM's to behave.

Sorry, I digress.  Hate to hear Painter is not supported though.  That's a downer. 

The touchsmart for me was an xmas present from my wife and I mainly wanted it to test drive 7 on.  Unfortunately, it turned into a games kiosk similar to the ones found in bars. and I haven't had the time to even try alot of things that I wanted to do on it.  Zune software is pretty nifty on it though.  Unfortunately, the scroll bars are too thin to get an accurate reading in the 7 beta.  I have yet to try it on RC.

(Microsoft, if you could imitate the bar games on the mega touch and sell it under the games for windows brand you will make a killing.  Just a suggestion. HINT HINT!!)

 

intelman said:

Are there any bing invite codes given out to niners? I tried to obtain one via Facebook and Twitter . Anyone at "Bing" feeling generous?

I have no idea why I am getting it, but it does appear to be Bing with the live search branding, and it's only showing up on my UMPC, and none of the other computers running 7.

Nuts

 

(Updated with images) Live Splash Page with Bing?  Home Depot Search Results with Bing?

Strangely enough, looking at the new video, I think I may be using Bing on live search.  For some strange reason, when I go to live search on my Q1, it has the orange accents, and the navigation bar on the left. 

 

Jamie, hate to pour some cold water on the new computer, but looks like MS has done it again.  First the TV pack was OEM only, now the new touch pack for windows 7 is OEM only as well.

Insert furious expletives here!!!

So much for my UMPC and Touchsmart moving forward...

 

jamie said:

vesuvius said:

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thanks for that.  ill work on the "most times" part

 

(crap - jumped a page - ill repost the vid so people dont have to click BACK)

Edit:  this thing is going to be great to test touch UI's  ... ive never understood my facination with kiosks (remember all the full screen posts?)

im not sure it is for drawing tho...  i think ill be able to do more with it - designing touch UIs than paintings..  as there is no pen - hard to draw with finger...

but i am loading all my graphics apps now on dvd - going up to install and see if finger is possible

 

(again - its amazing...just not sure its for painting? )

 

 

edit:  Q:  what is the difference between the touch smart pc screen touch technology - and the tablet pc - pen - touch screen technology?

 

it seems the touch smart is for kiosk style interaction - where as the tablet is more like wacom - but on screen (where you draw)

 

Q: is the tech basically the same?  ie - will there / might there be a pen that (like on the tablet pc) would ignore if your wrist rests on the screen? (or does it?)

 

ps - from here on in - its product review ... but ill say THANK YOU!!!!!! one more time!

 

Edit 2: I havent even gotten to the part where this thing is going to run my whole house / media / photos....  for now - just wondering about the drawing part

Jamie, be careful about installing games like bookworm deluxe .  You will never get any work done.

It does use an infared sensor matrix to simulate touch.  It's awesome because you get the full gloss of the monitor without any funky film on it.  More on the infared can be found here  at next window.

The real cool thing is the light for the keyboard.  If you look on the left hand side you will find a button that will shine a light directly below the screen.

The one thing i have yet to try on mine is turning on the speech recognition and go for the trifecta of input using speech, touch, and mouse/keyboard.

I just loaded up my Q1 UMPC with the 7 release candidate and started to load up enhancements for it.  That's when I noticed that the team's blog has disappeared with a redirect link back to the UMPC homepage.  MS Origami Home  I can understand that the game has changed with the introduction of netbooks, but I am curious if there will be any enhancements like origami or the specialized version of MS Reader coming for the new netbook/umpc platform. 

stevo_ said:

Not from MSDN you aren't surely, unless Microsofts msdn web site is so dumb that it cannot even let you see the msdn downloads webpage when its under load.. surely the web servers can handle displaying a couple million more page views.. its not like their actually the ones serving the isos.

It appears it was a SQL server problem.  Ed Bott has the details.

Should take only a day and a half to download....

Technet down for me as well. 

techno said:

ZippyV said:

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i want to distribute the file from the server and the only way i know is via user logon scripts that automatically run when the user logs in. Or am i looking at this the wrong way?

I am assuming that you are using the logon script to process updates and installs, correct?  If so you may find it easier to create a batch file and assign it as a scheduled task to run when the user is not around.  By giving the task system level permission, you should eliminate the issue of where you stored the batch script, and even have the batch script call another batch script on a central server store that you could easily edit for your needs.  I don't think that a logon script is the best answer because it's visible to the end user.


Another option would be to give the user logon permission to that folder in the program files.  Just edit the security, and give the user full control over the folder and all objects under it.  Of course by doing that your user has full control of the folder system and can and possibly will delete the scripts, etc.  Also, it gives a nice read/write/executable to the user to use by themselves without your permission.

Personally, I would use the first method, instead of the second method.