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Upgrading Your OmniBook to Windows 98 Before upgrading your HP OmniBook to Windows 98, visit the HP website at http://www.hp.com/omnibook or http://www2.hp.com/omnibook (European mirror) to obtain the latest related information. Windows NT 4.0 The Windows NT 4.0 Workstation \i386 files are located on the hard drive at C:\winnt\i386 directory. Enabling Automatic Suspend After Installing Retail Windows NT 4.0 If you install retail Windows NT 4.0, you must disable "Cdrom AutoRun" in the Registry in order for your OmniBook to suspend automatically. CAUTION: This procedure requires editing the Registry. Be very careful to change only the value listed in the following steps. Incorrect editing of the Registry can render the Windows NT system unbootable. To disable Cdrom AutoRun: 1. Log in as an Administrator. 2. From the Start menu, click Run. 3. Type REGEDIT and click OK. This starts the Registry Editor. 4. Select HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom. 5. Double-click on AutoRun. 6. Change the value from 1 to 0 and click OK. 7. Exit the Registry Editor. 8. Shut down and restart Windows NT 4.0. Your OmniBook will now suspend if you have a CD-ROM drive installed. IBM TrackPoint Driver Name Change in Windows NT (OmniBook 4100 and 7100 Only) After the IBM TrackPoint driver is installed, the mouse name changes from "IBM P S/2 TrackPoint" to "Microsoft PS/2 Port Mouse" after the Windows NT system is rebooted. This has no side effects. Card Executive and Windows NT Card Executive running under Windows NT does not support all functionality of notebook computers and docking systems at the time of this release. You may experience problems using some PC Cards with the OmniBook and docking products. Visit the HP website at http://www.hp.com/omnibook or http://www2.hp.com/omnibook (European mirror) to obtain the latest related information about this issue.

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Upgrading Your OmniBook to Windows 98
Before upgrading your HP OmniBook to Windows 98, visit the HP website at
to obtain the latest related information.
Windows NT 4.0
The Windows NT 4.0 Workstation \i386 files are located on the hard drive at C:\winnt\i386 directory.
Enabling Automatic Suspend After Installing Retail Windows NT 4.0
If you install retail Windows NT 4.0, you must disable "Cdrom AutoRun" in the Registry in order for
your OmniBook to suspend automatically.
CAUTION: This procedure requires editing the Registry. Be very careful to change only the value listed
in the following steps. Incorrect editing of the Registry can render the Windows NT system unbootable.
To disable Cdrom AutoRun:
1.
Log in as an Administrator.
2.
From the Start menu, click Run.
3.
Type REGEDIT and click OK. This starts the Registry Editor.
4.
Select HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom.
5.
Double-click on AutoRun.
6.
Change the value from 1 to 0 and click OK.
7.
Exit the Registry Editor.
8.
Shut down and restart Windows NT 4.0.
Your OmniBook will now suspend if you have a CD-ROM drive installed.
IBM TrackPoint Driver Name Change in Windows NT (OmniBook 4100 and 7100 Only)
After the IBM TrackPoint driver is installed, the mouse name changes from "IBM P S/2 TrackPoint" to
"Microsoft PS/2 Port Mouse" after the Windows NT system is rebooted. This has no side effects.
Card Executive and Windows NT
Card Executive running under Windows NT does not support all functionality of notebook computers
and docking systems at the time of this release. You may experience problems using some PC Cards
with the OmniBook and docking products. Visit the HP website at http://www.hp.com/omnibook or
http://www2.hp.com/omnibook (European mirror) to obtain the latest related information about this
issue.