Installment 3 of Vista on a UMPC - the Good, the Bad and the Utilities.
So we’ve seen the Good and the Bad with Vista on a UMPC. We’re talking UMPCs so there is no Ugly. Now we’re looking at utilities.
- UMPC Scrollbar. This little baby has save my butt a number of times. It lets you scroll the screen when the window can’t normally be resized. As good as Vista is, the team still blew it with some windows not fitting well on the small screen.
- BT On/Off - If your UMPC won’t let you easily turn bluetooth on and off this little utility will make it easy and let you squeeze a little more juice out of your UMPC. Don’t forget, you’re required to turn off your UMPC’s radios on a plane so don’t find yourself poking around in settings to turn off Bluetooth.
- Registry Hacks - Turn off superfetch and paging executive to get rid of that annoying disk thrashing.
The Built ins - The snipping tool, mobility center, Pen flicks, touch pointer and handwriting training make many XP utilities unnecessary. So I’m using fewer utilities and that’s a good thing!
- Q1 Specific Utilities - Make sure you install the HID drivers and MPM if you are using a Q1. HID drivers give true tablet functionality and MPM gives your Q1 a cursor button.
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