hello all,right now my dads laptop is getting verbal abuse,that is worst then road rage lol. And like i would format the thing for him cause i know that is the problem, its all wonky, and messed up, and slow as hell as if there was a P2 and 64 MB of ram lol, thats how slow its going. And the internet is all glitchy. Because this laptop was used and i told my dad to order the recover CD from acer hes like ok ok and doesnt do it, then gets mad at me for not fixing the laptop O.o.... So i would like to know if i put on windows XP home edition, can i place the tablet options somehow so that u can use the pen, cause sooner or later i am going to need to call jerry springer cause of all the verbal abuse the laptop is getting lol. help would be very much appreciated. So just to sum up, i want to place home edition on the laptop then download tablet extras mostly just to be able to use the pen, so like is tere a driver u can use or something? PC: CPU: P4 2.66 GHz RAM: 1GB HDD: 250GB GPU: Geforce FX 5500 Laptop: CPU: Turion 64 x2 Tl-50 RAM: 2GB HDD: 160GB GPU: Mobility Radeon x1600 128mb dedicated, 384Mb shared 512

I am confused. There is no Tablet Options in Windows XP Home Edition. Were you talking about Windows XP Tablet PC instead? i_XpUser

Take charge and order the CD for him. It would be easier than trying to get it back to OEM state any other way. There was a pen driver for Win98 but I forgot the company's name. It is on some old Xplore tablets we have. Might see if that app is out there. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

yah the thing is i dont have a credit card :P hahaha lol so like i need to find another way but yah ill pester him again PC: CPU: P4 2.66 GHz RAM: 1GB HDD: 250GB GPU: Geforce FX 5500 Laptop: CPU: Turion 64 x2 Tl-50 RAM: 2GB HDD: 160GB GPU: Mobility Radeon x1600 128mb dedicated, 384Mb shared 512

I presume you have a Wacom tablet or similar... if so the required drivers come with the tablet. There are no native drivers in XP. Once I thought I was wrong, now I'm not so sure!

Said by Ewen "I presume you have a Wacom tablet or similar... if so the required drivers come with the tablet. There are no native drivers in XP." no i have a tablet pc where u can use a pen straight onto the screen therefore there are no drivers for it tey are all for windows XP tablet edition. what happens if i install vista on this laptop the spec of it are... 1.2 GHz Centrino processor 512MB DDR Ram Intel GMA 900 40GB HDD i know the stats r rauchy but if i take off the aero of vista and whatnot cause i know it has tablet support do u think it will run nice?? cause this seems to be the only option i have rigt now. PC: CPU: P4 2.66 GHz RAM: 1GB HDD: 250GB GPU: Geforce FX 5500 Laptop: CPU: Turion 64 x2 Tl-50 RAM: 2GB HDD: 160GB GPU: Mobility Radeon x1600 128mb dedicated, 384Mb shared 512