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Even before Windows 7 was officially released, many owners of the Fujitsu LifeBook U820 had tried out the Windows 7 beta version and had nothing but praises for it.  A week after Windows 7 released I purchased my own electronic digital distribution and created bootable DVD to try out on my U820.  The Fujitsu support site had also released U820 Windows 7 compatible drivers.

Fujitsu didn’t provide any “Chipset” or “Video” drivers for Windows 7 therefore I downloaded the ones for Windows Vista and installed those instead.  To properly install the drivers for Windows Vista, it needed to be ran in Windows Vista compatibility mode.

Right click on the executable file and select “Properties”.  Check off “Run this program in compatibility mode for:”, and select “Windows Vista” from the drop down. Finally, check off “Run this program as an administrator”.

To resolve the unknown devices found in the Device Manager, I installed the “Fujitsu System Extension Driver: FUJ02E3″ and “Fujitsu HotKey Driver FUJ02B1”, followed by the “Fujitsu System Extension Utility” and “Fujitsu HotKey Utility”

To enable the 3 buttons below the screen, I installed the “Button Driver”, “Button Utilities” (for Windows Vista), and the “Fujitsu Zoom Utility”

The touch screen wouldn’t calibrate properly but was resolved by installing the “Pen” driver.

The “GPS” driver for Windows 7 was not provided as well, therefore I used the Windows Vista driver for that as well.

Other drivers that I installed were:

• Audio
• Bluetooth
• Camera
• Fingerprint Driver
• Fujitsu Mobility Center

Drivers that I did not install:

• Media Slot
• Power Saving Utility
• WLAN (Atheros)
• WWAN (Sierra Wireless – AT&T) UMTS

I brought the Fujitsu LifeBook U820 UMPC shortly after it was released 4th quarter last year.  With a rotatable touch screen for tablet mode, Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, memory card readers, and a camera, it had all the gadgets I needed built in a very lightweight and compact computer.  The only dissatisfaction was Windows Vista, the default OS it came with.  The Intel Atom Processor Z530 was simply not power enough to support such a … piece of software.

Fujitsu probably also knew about this because I managed to find U820 drivers for Windows XP Tablet PC on their support website.  Without anything to lose, I decided to give it a shot.

Fujitsu Windows XP Tablet PC Drivers

I managed to find a copy of Windows XP Tablet PC and did a fresh install on my U820.  The first thing I learned was the drivers didn’t install properly without Service Pack 3 and .NET Framework 2.0 or above.

Before doing anything else, the first set of drivers I installed were the “Chipset” and “Video (Intel)”.

To enable the 3 buttons below the screen, I installed the “Button Driver” and “Button Utilities”.

Next, to resolve the unknown devices found in the Device Manager, I installed the “Fujitsu System Extension Driver: FUJ02E3″ and “Fujitsu HotKey Driver”, followed by the “Fujitsu System Extension Utility” and “Fujitsu HotKey Utility”

The touch screen wouldn’t calibrate properly but was resolved by installing the “Pen” driver.

The rest of the drivers were pretty intuitive and could be installed in any order.

The drivers which I didn’t install were:

AT&T Communication Manager
AT&T Service Activation
Fujitsu Power Saving
LAN
Pointing
WWAN (Sierra Wireless)

As expected, the computer was a lot more responsive and significantly faster when running Windows XP.  The only issue is the volume scroll wheel doesn’t work until the computer wakes up from Standby.

In Japan, I brought myself a UMPC (Fujitsu FMV-BIBLO LOOX U50X/V). Unfortunately, the whole system was in Japanese, thus I had to convert things back to English by installing an English version of Windows Vista, and installing the English drivers for the Lifebook U1010.

One software package which I had remaining and wanted to install Microsoft Origami Experience Pack, a software package specifically designed for UMPC. After downloading the software from the Microsoft website.

When I attempted to run the installation I got the error “Origami Experience runs only on Ultra-Mobile PCs running with Windows Vista”. This was puzzling to me as my computers satisfied both conditions. Frustrated, I did some research and finally found a workaround.

1. Download the Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit for Windows Vista. Apparently, the Origami installer checks the device screen sizes and disallow itself to be installed on any device with a screen wider than 7 inches. The SDK will be used to remove this restriction from the installer.
2. Run the SDK setup.exe file and under the Installation Options uncheck everything except the “Win32 Development Tools”.
3. After the installation has been completed go to the directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Bin and run the file called orca.exe which is the MSI Editor that we will use to hack the Origami msi file.
4. After the ORCA has been installed, run it from the start menu, and open OrigamiExperiencePack.msi by going to File -> Open from the menu.
5. On the left panel of the application, scroll down and click on InstallExecuteSequence and then on the right panel click on the LaunchConditions item and delete it.
6. On the left panel again, look for the InstallUISequence item and then delete the LaunchConditions item from the right panel again.
7. Finally save your changes, and run the Origami MSI file again. You should be now able to installation the package!

Back in Japan, I brought myself the Fujitsu LOOX U50X/V an UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC). The only problem was, everything was in Japanese, therefore I had to convert everything back in English. I went and got an English version of Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, and I downloaded the English drivers from the Fujitsu website for the Fujitsu Lifebook U1010. After a couple of hours, my new UMPC is now running perfectly in English.