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For whatever reason, Microsoft didn’t build this option into Windows XP Tablet PC, but the Hold Tool for Tablet PC wont give you an alt click for certain form and window elements, such as scrollbars, buttons, check boxes, radio buttons and so on. Of course this tool doesn’t work in Firefox, perhaps to it using a seperate UI?

Also the Ink Desktop takes ages to load up, and usually ends up with the Eolas bug (where outlined hashmarks appear ont he edges of an item when you hover over it). I believe if you check the option to “allow active content to run in files on My Computer” in IE’s settings this will fix the problem. And speaking of Ink Desktop, why can’t we save them as a file and scroll through them as list or print them out later?

Although Microsoft got ArtRage 1.3 rebranded as Ink Art for inclusion, I still would of like to have had a nice drawing program similar to what the Snipping Tool 2.0 has. Granted I can use Windows Journal, I’d like to have an easy one with no background. Which reminds me the Snipping Tool needs an option to scroll down the window, like a document or a web site. It also would be nice to bring up the Snipping Tool’s editor without having to do another capture. And the Power Paint Tool PowerToy is not a good replacement at all, often I can’t get the UI to respond to my pen, its like once the button has focus it will no longer respond to changes, so you have to pick another and go back.

The Tablet PC Input Panel wont let you erase what you are writing (if its in handwriting mode) with the top of your stylus, instead it writes more text.

I recently got a new Windows XP installation cd with SP2b (it has Service Pack 2 plus some more updates) however it still required 77 updates and that did not include IE7. Not only that but that was only the critical updates. I don’t know why Microsoft doesn’t release SP3 already or at least make new cds with SP2c. I also noticed that Excite was the default search engine in Internet Explorer 7, not sure why. I don’t think it was like that on another install I’ve done before. I can only imagine if you did a fresh install of XP with just SP2 you’d probably have over 100 updates to do.

I really hate how these updates seem to happen like monthly now. I understand Microsoft uses it to cut down on piracy, but I really hate when their updates ask me over and over to reboot.

Microsoft has several PowerToys for Windows XP Tablet PC, but this one is probably the worst one. You draw in a ugly picture frame and as soon as you let pick up the pen the line starts to move until it hits a wall and bounces around. I was hoping this was going to be some kind of flipbook or something but it wasn’t.

Free your imagination and enjoy colorful animated images you create. The Drawing Animator Toy for Tablet PC lets you draw your own doodles and animate them, including picture rotation, bounce, and more.

I got this on my Tablet PC (running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005).

The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. The application will not run properly. The relocation occurred because the DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\HHCTRL.OCX occupied an address range reserved for Windows system DLLs. The vendor supplying the DLL should be contacted for a new DLL.

Microsoft has posted a fix for it.

This problem may occur after you install security update 925902 (MS07-017) and security update 928843 (MS07-008). The Hhctrl.ocx file that is included in security update 928843 and the User32.dll file that is included in security update 925902 have conflicting base addresses. This problem occurs if the program loads the Hhctrl.ocx file before it loads the User32.dll file.