MSI Windpad 110w

[jack909]

I actually ended up disabling it.

If anyone's interested how...
Went to Control Panel> Mouse> Hardware (Fourth Tab)> and I selected the second HID-compliant mouse> properties > disable

So now my trackpad is disabled. I'm a little pissed that I couldn't RMA, but I guess I wasn't really using it anyway and I didn't find it very helpful and accurate at all, so I will not miss it too much.

Now trackpad is disabled and low and behold device works great under any light situation.

I'm gonna install Bluestacks on it tonight to run Android apps Check it out. Should be fun and let's you have best of both worlds, widnows functionality and touch friendly apps for android, running straigt from windows desktop

[pox67]

I thought this forum had disappeared as it was down for a couple of days and I wasn't getting notifications.

I ordered those too... gotta be REALLY careful with the screen protector is just like installing window films lol. u REALLY need to spray the whole screen and wet it till is slides.. then remove the fluid from the centre to the outside carefully....

I have put a few of these skins on phones and I hate it. Spraying water on the device just seems unnatural and I figure it will be worse with the larger screen. Did you have any trouble with water getting in?
Any tips on keeping the water out?

Question:
I got this device and I really like it. However I'm experiencing a wierd problem. I was wondering if anyone knows how to fix it or if anyone has experienced it too, or is my tablet simply faulty.

I have been using the tablet on my lunch hour in the park. I noticed this problem as well and like you tracked it back to the mouse/trackpad. I use the track pad quite a bit with Windows 7 so when I am in the sun I just use it exclusively. It was pretty funny sitting under a tree and with the moving shadows the mouse would wander over the screen, at first I thought someone had remoted on to my tablet and taken control...or it had come alive!

As I know latest NB EC Firmware does some good things for screen sensor and sensor buttons.
I don't know what means "NB EC" but it deals with sensors. So, it may help in your situation (if you have unupgraded firmware).

I put on that firmware when I went to bios 106 but didn't really notice any difference.

Couple of other things:
1. I connected the Windpad to my Windows Home Server 2011. This puts a LaunchPad app on the tablet and installs a bunch of services to manage backups and PC health. The services absolutely killed the Windpad, it would take 5-10 minutes of 100% CPU on startup and was super annoying. I ended up disabling the WHS 2011 connector software on the Windpad.

2. Found a great document reader for tablet devices. It is called STDU Viewer and is free! It does lots of formats including PDF, and comic books (CBR, CBZ) which are important to me.
I had been through just about every comic viewer for Windows and none of them was good on a tablet. None had touch zones on the screen for turning pages etc.
STDU isn't the prettiest doc viewer but it does have good touch screen abilities. You can set up regions on the screen to turn to next/previous page with a tap or enter/exit full screen. These settings are hidden in the options.
It is also tabbed so I can have open my CCNA textbook and a comic as well.
Highly recommend this.

I think that is about it for now. Happy Windpadding!

[jack909]

Hi All,

First of all thank you pox67 for confirming I'm sane, and the trackpad is a little sensitive! l flashed to new bios and firmware but it did not improve anything... as a matter of fact it only added the terrible vibration to my bezel hotkeys - which update does that btw? firmware or bios? Does anyone have previous version to flash it back to old, non-shaky days?

After making desktop shortcut to "Mouse", disabling trackpad is quite quick and simple, so I can live with it.

Also if anyone is interested, you can easily disable Easy-O button completely by going to msconfig.exe and disabling Easy-O startup service.

[Candanga]

Hi there,

Guys I think its our responsibility to send these issues like the trackpad one to MSI. Their support staff always contact me ASAP and they seem to know what they are doing (at least for now) :P I guess the issue is sensibility-related. Maybe there is a setting for this under the trackpad options. I'll try to check if this affect me too and report results.

Regarding the film protector installation. Just spraying water. Dont be afraid, lol ...just have some paper towel at the end of where the water is going to drain and it will be ok....

CHECK this video.. I wont detail anymore as it would take like 5 forum pages :P Skinomi screen protector installed on a Asus eee Transformer - YouTube

Anyone with the MyDigSSD 64/128 post some benchies? I ordered the 64 yesterday after several weeks of reading forums about OCZ, Reniece, Intel, etc... I just don't think adding a $2xx SSD to a $600 tablet is worth it... I don't live using it, so... I don't know lol

Comments? Jokes?

Cheers!

[sergioi]

Hi All,

First of all thank you pox67 for confirming I'm sane, and the trackpad is a little sensitive! l flashed to new bios and firmware but it did not improve anything... as a matter of fact it only added the terrible vibration to my bezel hotkeys - which update does that btw? firmware or bios? Does anyone have previous version to flash it back to old, non-shaky days?

After making desktop shortcut to "Mouse", disabling trackpad is quite quick and simple, so I can live with it.

Also if anyone is interested, you can easily disable Easy-O button completely by going to msconfig.exe and disabling Easy-O startup service.

Just turn-off the vibration, I think it is on the Easy-O software configuration.

[Candanga]

Just turn-off the vibration, I think it is on the Easy-O software configuration.

With the new BIOS it doesn't work that way... it is ON as a default when using the side touch buttons.

[pox67]

Hi there,
Regarding the film protector installation. Just spraying water. Dont be afraid, lol ...just have some paper towel at the end of where the water is going to drain and it will be ok....

CHECK this video.. I wont detail anymore as it would take like 5 forum pages :P Skinomi screen protector installed on a Asus eee Transformer - YouTube

Anyone with the MyDigSSD 64/128 post some benchies? I ordered the 64 yesterday after several weeks of reading forums about OCZ, Reniece, Intel, etc... I just don't think adding a $2xx SSD to a $600 tablet is worth it... I don't live using it, so... I don't know lol

Comments? Jokes?

Cheers!

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. My skin still isn't here yet.

Concerning the hard drives, I spent about $200AUD on the 80gb Intel SSD and don't regret it at all. As others have said the initial SSD was quite slow and I had blamed the processor for slow program installs but it turns out the SSD was holding it back in this regard.

GPS: has any one got this working?
I have tried enabling it through OEasy but nothing seems to happen after a restart.
I have tried a few navigation programs but none of them are finding the internal GPS. I have tried Google Earth, Mapfactor Navigator Free and downloaded but not tried Microsoft Streets & Trips.

Bluestacks - I tried it and meh. Seems a bit slow and you can't add more apps unless you have a Facebook account? Screw that.

[Candanga]

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. My skin still isn't here yet.
GPS: has any one got this working?
I have tried enabling it through OEasy but nothing seems to happen after a restart. I have tried a few navigation programs but none of them are finding the internal GPS. I have tried Google Earth, Mapfactor Navigator Free and downloaded but not tried Microsoft Streets & Trips.

Bluestacks - I tried it and meh. Seems a bit slow and you can't add more apps unless you have a Facebook account? Screw that.

I ordered a MydigitalSSD 64 for 99 bucks. I'll see how it goes. Can you upload some crystalmark benchies of your SSD?

Same here with the GPS... I have a GPSinfo program that detects it and it locks satellites, but my navigation program doesn't seem to like it, so I'm using a USB one (which sucks to have a cable around), which is SIRF III and works fine.

About bluestacks... yeah.. pretty much is sluggish and the apps run in the native resolution, they don't scale... well, its a beta.. so we'll see.

Theres a benchie of the stock 32GB sandisk

[Zurv]

*cry*.. come on MSI.. tell us how to get that docking station in the US

[Kirr]

*cry*.. come on MSI.. tell us how to get that docking station in the US

Yeah... And in the Ukraine and Russia too.