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Last weekend I did a successful install of Vista 5219 on my old, faithful tiny tablet. This weekend I had hoped to play around with XAML-ing ink. Didn't get that far, had to do some guesswork first to get really started. First guess is the name of the OS. There are several  monikers:

• According to the boot screen it's still Longhorn
• The build part of  the PDC goods
• The September CTP 2005
• Beta 2

The first one is according to MS old-fashioned, the latter according to Geoff premature. Well, this is a part of the desktop. It does state beta 2 in the lower right corner:

To me it is the Tablet build. Tablet functionality is great but has one little quirk which prevented me getting to the XAML stuff. Occasionally the TIP (Tablet Input Panel) stalls the machine. From time to time this was so bad I had to try to find out what was going on. It took some trial, error and guesswork but I think I've got the TIP more or less under control.

• Disable automatic data collection
• Do no use the Sym, or Web buttons

The latter one is a good way to demonstrate the stall. The web button shows some quick text fragments like http:\\, .com and the top level domain according to the localization settings of the machine. So it interacts with the machine settings. Automatic data collection interacts with an external store. My wild, wild guess is that the TIP has a problem when it has to interact with something else then just the textbox it is filling. Crossing a process boundary ? Just a wild guess. But the stall does prevent my tiny tablet from being usable. But as long as I don't click them build 5219 is a delight to use. Also on my hardware. I can play chess, Inkball, browse codebetter and write a text in WordPad at the same time. No problem. But next weekend I really want to do something more serious.