Windows 7 on the Libretto U100

Today I managed to install the build 7000 van Windows 7 Beta on my Libretto U100!

From some forums I’d already learned that Windows 7 Beta is pretty stable and much hardware is already supported. Also for my U100, almost everything worked out of the box:

  • Screen resolution: 1280×768 working, although the VGA chip is not recognized
  • WiFi is working
  • Sound, working
  • Bluetooth working with default Toshiba bluetoothstack driver for Windows XP
  • Fingerprint reader, not working yet
  • One unknown device. have to fihure out what that is

The overall performance is very good. Much better that Vista! All themes are working.
I have to check the Performance index, but upfront I do not expect much on this.

I’ll keep you informed about my findings!

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8 Responses to “Windows 7 on the Libretto U100”
  1. merdoc merdoc says:

    Hi Bob,
    loving the site, there is so few places on the web for Libretto owners, Just a real quick question for you. I have a Libretto U100 and it works great with an external monitor. However i was looking at getting a widescreen monitor and i can see the that resolutions supported on the u100 are not widescreen. I tried intel for a driver update but it does not install with error about how its custom hardware, tried Toshiba site for driver update but none to be found. Is there any thing i can do to make it work? im running XP.

    PS- had to contact you this way as the verification thing on your contact page is not working. The anti spam thing does not accept ant input.

    thanks, Merdoc

  2. Bob Bob says:

    I’ll have a look at the contact forum.

    Please register at the forum.librettoworld.com User forum and ask your question there.

    I am sorry, but i cannot help you with this issue oersonally.

  3. story710 story710 says:

    Good news! Fingerprint sensor working!
    Download driver from
    http://win7beta.authentec.com/w7wbf32.exe
    Application
    http://www.upek.com/support/downloads/windows7/w7×86.asp

    Good luck!

  4. Bob Bob says:

    Yeeha, de fingerprint reader is also working. Windows & found a solution (driver) and i nstalled it all automatically.

  5. b13o0r12e3 b13o0r12e3 says:

    are you required to upgrade the memory to 1GB?

  6. Bob Bob says:

    Not required, I think Windows 7 just should on 512MB, but 1GB is higly preferable.

  7. i just installed Windows 7 on my PC. i just hope that it is as stable as Windows XP.

  8. Olsen Olsen says:

    Bob, did you ever figure out what the one unknown device was?
    also did you find video drivers?

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