I have been running Windows 7 beta and RC bit for a while and my only real complaint was problems with the tablet rotation. The problem was the button on the bezel that that rotates the screen and the auto-rotate that would kick in when you put the screen in tablet mode just wouldn’t work. Today I did...

Just finished setting up an HP Mini 110 (32GB SSD, 1GB RAM, 1366x768) with Windows 7 Home Premium. First I set up a 4GB thumb drive using these great instructions http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj/archive/2009/02/01/installing-windows-7-using-usb-thumb-drive.aspx Then I did a Custom install which blew...

Scott Hanselman calls it “paving ” I think of it as “repaving” because this machine has been rebuilt so many times. This is a preliminary list – I will add more as I need more – but this is the bare minimum. Windows Live Messenger (run it in Vista SP2 compatibility to get it to minimize to the system...

Pretty sweet – I completely repaved my Asus R1F tablet with Windows 7 RC build 7100 just now. Total time from rebooting the machine with the install DVD in it to writing this with Live Writer – 50 minutes. I may be a few drivers shy, like the screen rotate hardware button, but the pen is working and...

Pen computing – as it was once called – is something I have always been interested in. From the GRiDpad on, I have tried out most of the systems. It wasn’t until i got my ASUS R1F running Vista and OneNote 2007did I really start to approach the experience I had been hoping for. There is still room for...