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Comment on Installing Windows 7 Ultimate on a Panasonic CF-29 Toughbook by Nicholas

Nicholas — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:23:20 +0000

Here are the answers to your questions.

Q:Video driver, ok, though how to extract it?
A: I went to the below link and downloaded all the drivers on a different Computer. I then put them on a USB thumb drive and copied them to the toughbooks c drive. I then extracted and installed all the drivers to a directory I name Toughbookdrivers.
http://toughbookcentral.com/panasonic-cf-29-drivers/
Q: Isn’t the touchscreen driver incorporated with the trackpad driver?
A: I believe that the touchscreen is not incorporated with the trackpad driver, I remember the touchscreen driver was installed after the trackpad driver.

I hope this helps.

Comment on Installing Windows 7 Ultimate on a Panasonic CF-29 Toughbook by Bruno

Bruno — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:34:17 +0000

Hi Nicolas,

You wrote: I used the windows XP video driver and XP touch screen driver and installed it via windows Capability mode. This will fix the standard video that Windows Installs by default.

Video driver, ok, though how to extract it? Isn’t the touchscreen driver incorporated with the trackpad driver?

Thanks.

Comment on Installing Windows 7 Ultimate on a Panasonic CF-29 Toughbook by Nicholas

Nicholas — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:36:07 +0000

Q: can i reinstall the old xp OS and then just install the Ultimate 7 upgrade or should i just install the complete windows Ultimate 7 package.
A: I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. I personally have never done it, I had Windows 7 Ultimate N and did a full install. It should work. Give it a try.
Here is a link via Microsoft on upgrading from XP to 7:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/upgrading-from-windows-xp-to-windows-7

Comment on Installing Windows 7 Ultimate on a Panasonic CF-29 Toughbook by KevinB

KevinB — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:02:22 +0000

Thanks for the advice. i haven’t tried this yet but i was wondering something. I plan on changing out the harddrive to a faster one on my cf-29 and i am putting in a 1g ram card. can i reinstall the old xp OS and then just install the Ultimate 7 upgrade or should i just install the complete windows Ultimate 7 package. i ask becasue the upgrade package is about 100 bucks cheaper than the complete package.

Comment on Installing Windows 7 Ultimate on a Panasonic CF-29 Toughbook by HareyB

HareyB — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:34:48 +0000

Thank you Nicholas for this excellent procedure. For those tracking or searching by model, it worked on my CF-29ETKGZKM

Comment on Installing Windows 7 Ultimate on a Panasonic CF-29 Toughbook by Nicholas

Nicholas — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:41:53 +0000

I used the windows XP video driver and XP touch screen driver and installed it via windows Capability mode. This will fix the standard video that Windows Installs by default.

Comment on Installing Windows 7 Ultimate on a Panasonic CF-29 Toughbook by davkenrem

davkenrem — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:56:11 +0000

We’ll it did work, but it keeps reverting back to “video controller (vga compatible)”.

Comment on Installing Windows 7 Ultimate on a Panasonic CF-29 Toughbook by davkenrem

davkenrem — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:32:54 +0000

I just got a Toughbook CF-29MK2 and this worked for me thanks.

Comment on ToLongDateString remove the leading day by Nicholas

Nicholas — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:45:05 +0000

This code is perfect if your working with dates and strings. In my crazy case we had to send an object attached in a stream (TCPIP) to a non-windows system. So one of my guys on my team came up with an idea to create an array list as an object, I thought it wouldn’t work…BUT IT DID. So we posted here.
We use your code a lot for normal coding:
Dim THEDATESTR As String = Format(DateTime.Now.ToString(“yyyyMMdd”)) ‘format for SAP
But sometimes we get crazy problems where the normal way doesn’t work, and crazy code that you would never think would work…does… I tend to enjoy the crazy code, then talk about it and buy a round of beer for the developer that came up with it…

Comment on ToLongDateString remove the leading day by Cory Jorgensen

Cory Jorgensen — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:18:46 +0000

‘ This is the shortest line to get what you want
TextBox3.Text = Date.Now().ToString(“MMMM d, yyyy”)