[Windows 8 General] ca2l3vin:
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Ok so here is my situation. I have a HP Touchsmart 520-1030 and I am wanting to use windows 8 with the touchscreen. That being said it appears that on both the Developer and Consumer release that the driver for it does not work well with Windows 8 even though it works fine on Windows 7 (I have it dual booted on seperate partitions).

So here is a description of what I have attempted so far.

Downloaded the Driver package from HP's Website and ran. Wouldnt install as gave OS version error.

So I ran in compatibility mode Windows 7 with admin permissions (also taken ownership). I get the same error about the OS version.

I then went to NextWindow's website and downloaded the original (older) drivers from there. It says its installed but does not work (device manager showing touchscreen with a ! on it.)

I then tried to update the driver in DM and search gives an error.

I then browsed to the installation folder of the drivers and it states cant find driver.

I then went back and compared it with windows 7 drivers and see the "touchscreen" driver is NextWindow Voltron Touchscreen. I then compared the Hardware IDs and sure enough they are the same ID's (I believe).

I then used a universal extractor and extracked the package for HP and NextWindow and attempted to manually update the driver through DM. It updates but I get an error with the HP packages (code:10 Device will not start) It shows correctly now but has ! next to the name

I rolled it back and updated with the NextWindow Drivers the same way. It installed successfully but when attempting to use the touchscreen no response. (also name is different NextWindow Multi-Touch Device)

so I rolled back and attemped to update manually without the extracted packages (using Windows Default ID's it has) I see one that states NextWindow and it seems to have the same information as the packages. I get the same errors.

So natrually now I see it seems to be the NextWindow Drivers are what is causing the problem. In doing research (reports on multiple forums) it appears that many all-in-one or overlaid monitor is having the same issue with the NextWindow Drivers. Now that being said I have seen what appears to be HP Touchsmart 610's running Windows 8 on youtube (developers build as the are older vids) and doubt that MS would have removed the drivers if they were working. :mad:

So the Bounty for me will start at $40 Dollars starting at the time of this post. Every 24 hours that this post remains unsolved I will dock $1 dollars from the total bounty (basically im looking for a quick solution not one after drivers have been redone by the NextWindow already.) If you can solve this its a quick $40 for just basically searching around and seeing something I couldnt figure out. This also may help ALOT of people that have All-in-ones as these drivers are made for multiple PC's with touchscreen devices (8 manufactuers total such as Sony, Lenovo, HP, ect.)

Good Luck ;) (and I prefer to pay via Paypal to make things easy.)