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[Shift General] Slotrat:
Can anyone confirm that these drivers actually WORK on XP as well? :confused:

I have just reinstalled Vista, I wish I saw this post earlier, then I could have tried.

Edit: I created a dual boot with XP now and I can confirm that the Vista drivers does NOT :mad: work on XP.

Edit2: For days I have now tried to vLite a Vista for my Shift, also I have installed XP with current drivers. I can only say that the best user experience I have gotten so far with my Shift is with the ORIGINAL HTC Shift Vista with only a couple of unwanted services disabled.

I will stick with original Vista from now on. The only thing I will fix is to create a Rescue DVD with my original Vista Rescue Partition and tools in case of emergency, and also then I can safely remove the hidden partition. I'll probably never install XP again, memory footprint is low with XP but the Shift is much more responsive running Vista anyway.
[Shift General] ya75khan:
Win XP Rules on this machine.

Sorry I cant disagree more.

Had my shift for 2 months and it wasnt till I installed winXP that I am begining to use and enjoy it.

took it couple of times while travelling and tried to surf the net while waiting for the flight. As it tunrs out unless ur flight is delayed for a week your shift will still be booting vista while all the passengers are on board.

if you happen to install office 2007 and few other applications then you are in a really bad position. every other windows will take ages to finish what it is doing and if you get frustrated and try to close it down it will display "Not responding".

I am using it without touch screen and finger print device. rest everything works perfect. with mouse given on the side of the screen and holing shift in my two hands I dont have spare hand to use the touch screen anyway.

not planning to install touch screen drivers as it works perfect without them. give it a try urslef.

Thanks for the hard work guy on this forum.
[Shift General] ya75khan:
winXP image

I have managed to install win XP and all drivers. everything working except touch screen and finger print. ( not affecting me atleast).

I have made a acronis partition image for my back up so that I dont have to go through the same pain again.

I can upload the image almost 4gB if there is sufficinet need for it. It will install configured WinXP on shift with everything except touch screen and finger print working. may be some one can fix and upload updated version back.
[Shift General] gemito138:
I have installed xp tablet pc edition and the touch screen work perfect except you can´t calibrate, but it has calibrated.
[Shift General] FOOFTR:
When you say it has callibrated, do you mean it is working correctly straight away? No further calibration required? Thanks
[Shift General] blitzspear:
XP

Ok i've installed everything as you said and cannot get the resolution button or shagctrl to work.

I get a dwmapi.dll was not found trying to run ShagCtrl...

Any ideas?
[Shift General] gemito138:
Yes it works correctly. No fuerther calibration required.

You must install the drivers in the correct order. (like the pdf says).

I have installed "tablet pc edition" and i dont know if it works in xp profesional.

I installed long time ago the first drivers of this post and whith this drivers touch screen works but uncalibrated. With the new drivers touch screen works well. You can´t calibrate but it´s not necesary.

Sorry for my english...
[Shift General] aquasesh:
I think we should make this easy. Why doesnt someone who has all the drivers working create an acronis image and share it. I guess many people would be happy to get XP.

I can host the image on my server, if necessary.
[Shift General] ferrett1968:
Yesssss!

That's THE idea!!!!!
[Shift General] uiqjirka:
Touch Screen,Calibration - XP Tablet

Even the display calibration is not any problem with XP Tablet.

The installation process is descibed on the first page(regarding Touch Screen) is to much complicated.You don´t need to do the most of the steps given here.

Installation proces for touch screen:

1.Download HTC Shift Driver Updates (Windows Vista) from htc.com

2.From the drivers packet choose following items:

Vista ECDrvV1 and

Touch Screen 1.0.1.10

3.First instal Vista ECDrvV1

4.Install Touch Screen 1.0.1.10(please do not forget to confirm the announcement

......The software was not tested for windows system ETC......which will appear during the installation process and continue the installation)

5.Restart

6.Go to Start-Control Panel-System-Hardware-device Manager-Human Interface Devices-and here are two HID-compliant device.Disable only the first HID-compliant device (the first HID - compliant from the top)

7.Now the calibration is working

My video on youtube:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aPgrvmJVHvA
[Shift General] ya75khan:
Great.

much simpler solution.

works like a magic.

Many thanks.

Now finger print hardware. Any one out there have done and willing to share?
[Shift General] uiqjirka:
For Finger Print Hardware I use drivers and aplication(omnipass) from my Packerd Bell.Works perfect.

The file has 35MB.Where do you want me to save it?
[Shift General] hetallerbeste:
Faster Vista of XP

Can anyone tell me if XP (SP3) is realy faster than Vista (SP1). Of course it wil save some space on the hard drive but are there more benevits to install XP.

And does anyone know what the best way is to install XP on the Shift.

Is it possible to install from USB with (for example) LastXPv21?

With this version i can create a bootable USB Stick to install XP on my Shift.

But has anyone tried this on the Shift?

And yes, i wanna surely wanna know that XP is running better on the Shift than Vista. Maybe some speedtests would be fine. But i don't know how to do that!
[Shift General] ya75khan:
Finger printing

Umm.

Can these files be uploaded here or Rapid share?

Alternatively are these files available on net? Packard Bell website?

That will solve the last final hurdle we have.
[Shift General] uiqjirka:
Shift XP Tablet and Fingerprint with Omnipass

here is my upload:

http://rapidshare.com/files/141313558/Fingerprint_and_Omnipass.rar

video on youtube:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MYlva8T8tkQ
[Shift General] aquasesh:
can you confirm that all the devices are working under XP?

If so, how is the speed compared to vista.

I will host the files on my server soon.

Now, can someone image his shift after a fresh install and all drivers are fixed??? I will host it for everyone to access
[Shift General] ya75khan:
Fantastic

Great. Finally the Finger printing works.

Many thanks. Machine is finally usable.

All works now. I would take the image of a fresh install and will upload it.

I switched on Wifi and bluetooth in vista before installing XP.

Any ideas on a tool which can be used to switch wifi and bluetooth on and off?

the pof method is way too complicated for a beginner.
[Shift General] aquasesh:
Just use Pof's hsect... you can just put the batch files onto your desktop and even give them a nice icon. Should work fine.

Dont forget to install cygwin.
[Shift General] ElCamino:
How do you patch this on a Windows XP Pro OS? I downloaded and tried the batch files and nothing.
[Shift General] aquasesh:
Make sure your WinXP is SP2.

Then check that all the files are in c:\temp

otherwise you have to alter all the config files.

I PM you later again with the complete steps.
[Shift General] hetallerbeste:
Howto install Windows XP

Doen anyone know howto install Windows XP on the HTC Shift?

I tried to install it with an USB stick with windows XP. And that was realy fast but...

After installing, the following message appeard:

- Windows Could nog find HAL.DLL (With USB Stick)

- There is problem with you hardrive bla bla bla (without USB Stick)

With Function + F3 i could restore Windows Vista, but thats wat i don't want to do.

So is there a howto somewhere on the net to install Windows XP on the Shift, without a CD!
[Shift General] 4all:
Howto install Windows XP???.

Complicated, there is not yet created a real step by step guide to clarify all the points, each user brings their best ideas, but we must take each one I go testing based on a "test mistake" to give the solution . An example of what we have in paragraph:

What is not clear is that to change, copy, draw, etc. .. files into folders "System", you must first remove the permits that have to default from DOS.

6 .- Recovery Console.

We must not forget how to copy files through the Recovery Console.

This is to use the shell, similar to orders MSDOS we can get through the Windows XP CD-ROM.

You need the Windows XP CD-ROM and password for the Administrator.

Recovery Console. (See Lost XP Repair)

1 .- Set BIOS for the system to boot from the CD-ROM.

2 .- Enter the Windows XP CD-ROM.

3 .- Push a key to enter the CDROM.

4 .- Sale a menu. Press the R key to enter the Recovery Console.

5 .- We asked for the password of the Administrator.

C: \ WINDOWS> cd SYSTEM32

C: \ WINDOWS \ SYSTEM32> COPY archivonuevo.abc archivoviejo.abc

That way you can modify files.

Before doing this, it is always advisable to make a backup of the file you are going to change.

With the recovery console can:

Accessing partitions NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16.

Repair Sector boot disk or a partition FIXMBR, FIXBOOT.

Formatting Disks and partitions.

In return:

You can only access the root C: C: \ cmdcons and C: \ WINDOWS and its subcarptas.

You can not run programs.

If you want the Recovery Console can access directories more limited than those offered by default, you must perform the following steps:

1 .- In Windows XP

2 .- Start / Run / gpedit.msc ---> directive group.

3 .- directive team / team setup / Windows Settings / Security Settings / local directives / Security Options ---> Panel right

4 .- Recovery Console: allow copying diskettes and access to all drives and folders.

5 .- Ø Accredited. OK.

6 .- When you enter into the recovery console you must make.

AllowAllPaths = true

Now you can browse the disk and all folders

So with all the major incidents that do not finish clarify, change resolution, enable disable, Wan, Bluetooth, etc. ... We will have to wait for

takes everything very clear and prepare a final guide with step by step and go right and remedy any possible incidences, with respect to what your impact would be more logical to install from an Portable dvd writer http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=377610, start with f-10, selecting I install video recorder from there, what's happening is that the ini-Boot does not recognize or can not find the USB.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm

Best regards :D
[Shift General] ElCamino:
Ok will make sure thanks. Also after all files are in Temp which one do I click to run?
[Shift General] ElCamino:
No readme file so will wait for how to install Tablet patch to Windows XP Pro. Thanks
[Shift General] FOOFTR:
If someone can confirm that a fresh install of Tablet will natively provide Bluetooth drivers I would appreciate it. I am confused by some earlier comments that one must also have Vista installed and turned on for these to load properly....

I have my XP Tablet CD's unwrapped and the files downloaded and I'm ready to begin the journey. Thank you all who have helped to get us to this stage. I will post any findings along the way and not being a total computer whiz it should be in laymans terms.
[Shift General] ya75khan:
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[Shift General] ya75khan:
Wifi and bluetooth

Before you install WinXP over vista make sure that wifi and bluetooth are switched on using shag control.

This has to be done only and only once before you start wiping vista off. Then you are ready to replace vista with XP. there is no need for vista to co-exits at all.

Bluetooth hardware will be picked up by windows XP without any need to install any special drivers.

I installed XP without switching on wifi and bluetooth first time. I had to restore vista and switch on these feature before second attempt. now my shift is only winxp with all drivers and everything working.

it is more useful machine now.
[Shift General] alazarid:
what the other posts where saying was that in order to find the device and install it you must first enable it under vista, or use pof's tool to enable it after installing XP
[Shift General] FOOFTR:
Well this is where I find it confusing as per ya75khan's comments...they state that one MUST have Vista installed and switched on before the XP install....yet are you saying I *could* do a fresh install of XP but just use Pof's tool (which I will use) and that will enable the devices...see my point? Maybe I'll dual boot it and wipe Vista afterwards to be safe....

It really is a shame HTC aren't supporting us on this. Customer driven they are not...
[Shift General] hetallerbeste:
Step by step please!

Please keep us informed step by step how you install XP on the Shift. I want to take the step also but the first actions has me taken to reinstall Vista with FN+F3
[Shift General] alazarid:
What I have done

Fresh install XP Tablet edition.

Install cygwin and run pof tools.

Download and install the new device drivers that HTC has published

And that is all.

Although that I am back to Vista for the following reasons.

1. the display resolution 1024X480 (all the popup screen's buttons are inaccessible) I found a tool to virtually scroll the screen but that does not help me.

2. bluetooth drivers (In Vista I am able to connect more than one device and all of them work perfectly, which in XP I didnt managed it)

3. I used the tuneup utilities 2008 program to configure the perfomance in Vista (now it is running in an acceptable way).

then next thing that I am trying to find is a 2GB microdimm to replace the RAM, but at the moment is to expensive and no one gurranties that it will work in SHIFT.

Regards
[Shift General] hetallerbeste:
Hmm Thanks.. But did you installl it from CD?

Did you do a clean install, with format hardisk?

Can you tell me anything about the speed of the system with XP?

My problem is that i don't have a external CDROM drive. So I'm searching for a way to install it from USB. I think this should be possible.
[Shift General] alazarid:
Yes I did it through external DVD. there are ways to prepare the hard disk with the installation files and start it from there but is a litle tricky, and you will stll need a CD to copy the files.

yes a clean install

The speed was good but nothing really really fast (faster than VISTA for sure)
[Shift General] hetallerbeste:
But what if i can install Windows XP from CD Rom.

After that it won't boot anymore. But that could work.

But when i tried I had to reinstall Vista again.
[Shift General] FOOFTR:
"3. I used the tuneup utilities 2008 program to configure the perfomance in Vista (now it is running in an acceptable way)."

mmm...decided to wait just a little bit longer and see if HTC will provide XP support - I started to play around tonight with tuneup 2008 and it's a nice little piece of software. After I optimised it I tried some WMV files that used to freeze my Shift...ran no issue....Excel was quick to open as was Outlook...thanks for this little tip.
[Shift General] -Htc-:
the link for graphic card driver don't work!!!
[Shift General] creatormusic:
control center

Hello,

Does somebody know how to install control center on the HTC Shift with XP Tablet edition installed? When I run the control center setup from the HTC Site, i got an error message: It is searching for the vcredist_x86-sp1.exe file. I have downloaded that file, and the installation completes succesfully. After a reboot, i could'nt open the control center. He could not found the shagctrl.exe file.

Does somebody know how I can solve this problem? with the control center? I want to use it to connect the build-in modem to XP. XP cannot found the modem without the contol center. Or is there any other way to let windows detect the modem?
[Shift General] alazarid:
you have to use pof's utility to emulate it after you install cygwin.

the button itself will not work but with this you can enable and disble devices.
[Shift General] FOOFTR:
alazarid - I just wanted to say thanks for your input so far (not forgetting anyone else)...some of your work has been very beneficial so thanks for your gems.
[Shift General] oframa99:
XP??

awsome..

so now i wanna take shift so bad ><

XP...

thz it

XD
[Shift General] BallGor:
Would those who successfully installed XP backup all drivers with Drivermax program and send us the backup folder, so that we can install Drivemax in XP and install all these drivers for our Shift?

http://www.drivermax.com/download.htm

Thank you very much in advance!!!!
[Shift General] jesusrr:
A quick guide

Hi All, all the work and time that you spend in this project is great, but for people that is not expert in this isues is dificult use much informaton. Some links no have information, and there is 3 or 4 links for the same. Could you please generate a easy recopilition of the isues solved until today, this way te peopl who is o expert can use your great job. Thanks.
[Shift General] FOOFTR:
Well I finally got around to trying XP tablet as I had to do a Fn F3 due to some corruption in my WiFI stack. Here's what happened:

- Installed XP tablet from via USB DVD drive - wiped Vista totally

- Installed VGA driver and the two HTC drivers as described earlier -all OK

- Sound drivers all OK

- Stopped there whilst dealing with Pof's Cygwin based otol - had issue with corrupt msi exec and reinstalling it from cmd line did not fix it. Decision made to reinstall Vista cleanly, partition 4 gig off, create dual boot machine with XP.

The screen works great - just got to change resolution under display properties, show all modes to the correct res...doesn't show nativley and this has tripped some people up. The calibration is perfect.

But the big thing is - it is fast under XP....and I mean FAST! Windows opening and closing with no issues....loading media player was instantanious. COntrol Panel in a nano second....I am convinced that when I get this XP tab running properly I will probably use it for 90% of all Shift activity.

Further update when I get to that stage.
[Shift General] rwijnhov:
Could somebody maybe make a ghost of his fully working xp so that others can download this image and use it on their shift? I realy got stuck with the touchscreen.
[Shift General] Aldan:
I followed exactly all the steps, but touchscreen does not work on my XP. Could anybody advise me? Thanks.
[Shift General] FOOFTR:
Screem works 100% - Are you using the current HTC drivers from the web?

I installed in this order as per uiqjirka:

1.Download HTC Shift Driver Updates (Windows Vista) from htc.com

2.From the drivers packet choose following items:

Vista ECDrvV1 and

Touch Screen 1.0.1.10

3.First instal Vista ECDrvV1

4.Install Touch Screen 1.0.1.10(please do not forget to confirm the announcement

Then I installed the VGA drivers on the first paghe of this thread...disabling the first HID device in device manager afterwards (although seemed to work anyway?)....good luck
[Shift General] Aldan:
Thanks a lot, but I followed this instructions, and - nothing.. Do you have XP or Tablet XP? Also maybe the problem is that touchscreen driver's version at htc.com is newer then 1.0.1.10 (actual is 1.1.0.2)? Could you please send me driver 1.0.1.10?
[Shift General] VeEuzUKY:
That is a great idea! I think basically all of us owners of the Shift (worldwide) want XP on it I dont think anyone prefers Vista! If somone could indeed make a Ghost/image of a fully Working XP clean install config, I think it would be heaven on earth for all of us and make this into a wonderful and simple reality! :) :) :)
[Shift General] FOOFTR:
First up you must be using XP Tablet...not XP - if you are using XP it will not work unless you patch it (link on this forum), which I haven't tried. I have XP Tablet CD's from an old dead HP so I guess I was in luck...mind you, it can be found if you look hard enough (did someone say t orre nt?).

Secondly, use these first from the Vista pack from HTC.com

Vista ECDrvV1 and

Touch Screen 1.0.1.10

Then use this VGA Driver - http://downloadcenter.intel.com/dow...All&OSFullName=All+Operating+Systems&lang=eng

If this needs to be uploaded to rapidshare let me know and I will - that server is bogus. The newer HTC vista driver will probably work but I know this one works for sure.

The reasons why some of us who have 100% working XP systems can't make images are:

1. Time (me especially)

2. Personal information on image (email, licenses, data)

3. If we start again with a fresh install to get a clean image something might go wrong

Please understand. However, now you guys know these issues as soon as yours is working maybe you could do the image?

So assuming you are using XP Tablet the following was what I drew up as a rough guide. It is really rough and uses other peoples work on this site so credit to them. (note - the cygwin thing is discussed in detail elsewhere here - please investigate before asking).

Xp On the Shift

Install XP Tablet

1.Download HTC Shift Driver Updates (Windows Vista) from htc.com

2.From the drivers packet choose following items:

Vista ECDrvV1 and

Touch Screen 1.0.1.10

3.First instal Vista ECDrvV1

4.Install Touch Screen 1.0.1.10(please do not forget to confirm the announcement

......The software was not tested for windows system ETC......which will appear during the installation process and continue the installation)

5.Restart

6.Go to Start-Control Panel-System-Hardware-device Manager-Human Interface Devices-and here are two HID-compliant device.Disable only the first HID-compliant device (the first HID - compliant from the top)

Then the XP VGA driver xp14324

Then install Vista drivers in same order as per the HTC site – except fingerprint, SHAG, Marvell (later) and LAN.

WiFi

sdbus.sys must be copied to system32\drivers from windows (or where you copy it to) via XP Recovery .

Then install cygwin in full including ioperm and turn on with hsect2 –W 1 (0) for off

Then install WiFi drivers – SD8686 from Vista will work.

Then change settings to be power save mode from default to "IEEE 802.11 etc" and Radio Off to enable.

Bluetooth – use cygwin for this too

Hsect2 –B 1 for on (0 for off)
[Shift General] Aldan:
Huh, the reason that touchscreen does not work is using simple WinXP instead XP Tablet. Unfortunately I can not test patch for XP, because file was removed and now link is wrong. :(
[Shift General] aquasesh:
Sorry for that. I am working on the server right now. The link will be back up tomorrow.

I will also write another guide to explain the patch a little better.
[Shift General] Aldan:
Thanks a lot! I will try to install patch when link will work.
[Shift General] Aldan:
Also there is intersting issue with sound - Realtek HD audio drivers are installed and no any errors displayed. But I hear no sound. And if I will switch to WinMo and try to get sound from there (even just beep or click), I will hear BOTH sounds - from XP and from WinMo. Maybe the root of this problem is that I have XP instead Tablet XP installed, but I'm not sure.
[Shift General] ya75khan:
Win XP Acronis Image

I have a clean install of Win Xp tablet pc edition acronis image. It took me 10 minutes to restore my shift back to XP recently. All drivers installed and working.

it is 4GB in size. if any one can suggest how i can share the file then I am willing to upload it. this will save weeks of work for a novice.
[Shift General] Pantaloonie:
If you do this, make sure you don't put a link to the file anywhere on these forums - it will be removed and you'll probably get banned.
[Shift General] FOOFTR:
In spite of it being difficult to link to (legality of it) or upload I just wanted to say thanks for the offer...very kind.
[Shift General] aquasesh:
Sounds like a plan. I can provide my server space to upload.

The server can be accessed later via PM...

If you already own a legal copy of WinXP Tablet PC Edition, you dont have to worry about legality. You can change the license key, to your own.