As a result, even with the proper drivers installed, the front keyboard, enter, and screen rotation buttons on the front didn't work. This appears to be a common problem with older touchscreen computers. The problem is that Windows 7 doesn't recognize the CF-18 Mk3 touchscreen as a touchscreen, but only as a mouse. I followed the How To for the CF-18 Mk1 by rcx here, and the vast majority of the credit goes to him:īut that procedure assumed a digitizer model, and I have a touchscreen model.
I'm putting this how to together since rcx's original thread was for the digitizer model, and a lot of info on the Touchscreen model was getting lost in the size of his thread. I always figured that an SSD might help, but after an abortive attempt last year with a faulty Kingspec SSD, I'd given up for the time being. I'd upgraded by adding a 1gb stick of RAM for a total of 1.25 gb, but while that helped, it was still very slow, so much so that I purchased a CF-19 Mk2. My CF-18 was miserably slow on a stock install of XP with the original hard drive. I took this opportunity when I installed a Transcend 64gb PATA SSD. All buttons work, the touchscreen works (more about that below), and it is reasonably quick. I just successfully did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate on a CF-18 MK2 Touchscreen, model CF-18FHAZXBM, to be exact.
