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Startup processes on a Toshiba M400

Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 10:58 PM by jonathanh
Or, " What is all this stuff doing on my computer ", part II. I've just finished switching my portable life over to a new Toshiba M400 Tablet PC. Gig of memory, Centrino Core Duo, life is good. At least, it was good until I looked at the process list Read More...
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Patch for tcserver.exe memory leak on Tablet PC - at last!

Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:15 PM by jonathanh
In August 2004, I mentioned that the Tablet PC uses managed code for parts of its inking support. Specifically, tabtip.exe and tcserver.exe . Buried wayyy down at the end of the comments you’ll see my acknowledgement that there was a “known issue” with Read More...
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MaxiVista just got even better

Posted Sunday, June 12, 2005 9:53 PM by jonathanh
MaxiVista is a software application that lets you use another PC – your laptop, for example – as an extra screen for your main computer. Since more screen real estate is always better, this is a Good Thing. It's especially sexy with a Tablet PC, because Read More...
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New Tablet PC feature on Channel 9 - ink-enabled posts!

Posted Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:24 PM by jonathanh
Charles and the gang just showed off a new feature for the first birthday of the Channel 9 community site - readers can now post handwritten comments using a Tablet PC! Or a mouse, plus sufficient determination :-) Here's the first of many ink posts in Read More...
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Diagnosing laptop hangs - and using a tablet pc because I WANT to

Posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 10:00 PM by jonathanh
The solution to my hanging tablet pc turns out to be a simple case of "don't change the defaults, stupid". While using the Toshiba Portge 3500 at home, I had been experimenting with decreasing the wifi speed from 11 Mbps to 2 Mbps in an effort to increase Read More...
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Using a tablet pc because you HAVE to (or, life is too short for 3 minute tasks)

Posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 10:06 PM by jonathanh
Laptop woes have been conspiring recently to keep me from blogging. Initially it was just a couple of keys on my tablet pc that seemed to need several hits to register. The next day, however, the whole keyboard was dead. Worse yet, our tech support guys Read More...
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The problem with MaxiVista…

Posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 9:27 PM by jonathanh
…is that once you've used it you can never go back. For those who missed my earlier review, MaxiVista is a networked virtual display driver that lets you extend your Windows desktop onto the screen of a second computer. What this means is that every morning Read More...
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Debugging SP2 on the Tablet PC - managed code, tabtip.exe, and procexp

Posted Sunday, August 29, 2004 11:26 PM by jonathanh
If you've got a Tablet PC and you're running SP2 (and you should be!) you might have noticed a couple of processes hanging around called TabTip.exe and TCServer.exe. And right after noticing them, you probably wondered why they seemed to be taking up Read More...
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Jittery digitizer on a Toshiba Portege 3500 Tablet PC? Pen stopped working? Try this

Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:33 PM by jonathanh
I just fixed an annoying problem on my old Toshiba Tablet PC - the pen stopped working. To be precise, when I tried to use it the mouse pointer would flicker madly along the top and left edges of the screen, totally unable to track the real position of Read More...
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What do you map your Tablet PC buttons to?

Posted Monday, July 26, 2004 12:48 PM by jonathanh
All Tablet PCs have extra buttons next to the screen, to give the user non-pen-based input options when in tablet mode. And of course these buttons can be remapped by the user - the question is what to map the buttons to, and why? Here's my current setup Read More...
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"That looks like a GDI leak"

Posted Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:54 PM by jonathanh
After reading KC Lemson's blog entry about her system slowing down due to wisptis.exe leaking GDI objects , I fired up Task Manager and started poking around (click View, Select Columns, and then add "GDI Objects" to follow along). Outlook and my web Read More...
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The joys of wireless, or, why I like cloudy days in Seattle

Posted Friday, June 25, 2004 3:20 PM by jonathanh
Like many other Microsoft product-group bloggers, I had today marked down as “absolute drop-dead deadline to finish my annual performance review”. Of course, this really means “start worrying about it last night, and then channel that Read More...
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The only way to work on a laptop: folder redirection and offline files

Posted Sunday, May 02, 2004 10:06 PM by jonathanh
I might bitch about eating our own dogfood, but a lot of the time it's actually pretty damn tasty. For example, I can't remember how I ever used a laptop without the combination of folder redirection and offline files. Microsoft's technical support staff Read More...
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Microsoft laptop gripes - and why we still have to recondition batteries

Posted Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:44 PM by jonathanh
These have been hard days for Microsoft laptops. First Dennis Cheung's Acer doesn't autosuspend , then Omar Shahine gripes about power management on his Toshiba Tablet PC (and about why PC laptops aren't as sexy as PowerBooks), and finally Josh Ledgard Read More...
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Tablet PC power schemes, or how not to burn a hole in your lap

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 11:25 AM by jonathanh
By default, Windows XP comes with a pretty good set of power schemes . But if you're a control freak, you'll really love the Power Saver application that Toshiba ships with its Tablet PCs. You can create an unlimited number of additional power schemes, Read More...
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