The times they are a-changin’.
This post seems to be older than 15 years—a long time on the internet. It might be outdated.
I’ve been fighting with my computer all afternoon to try and get inking to work in OneNote 2007. I kept getting an error about OneNote needing Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 with Service Pack 2 in order to work. Well, I have the RC2 of Service Pack 3, so I was thinking that may have been the issue.
So I uninstalled SP3 (build 3311). That ended up screwing even more things up since it decided to basically uninstall all my drivers. So I rolled back using system restore to Monday. That got me back to where I was this morning: working but still no love on the OneNote inking.
I tried a couple of things I found on the internet, including Daniel Escapa’s trick of of running cd %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Ink\ and trying to the KB900722 patch.
regsvr32 /s inkobj.dll
No joy.
I trying running the OneNote diagnostics tool.
Again, no love.
I finally break down and get ready to send an email to Microsoft support. I’m entering in my details and I notice that the inking panel is active again.
Figures. As soon as I try to contact Microsoft, the program works again. No rhyme or reason.
By the way, I seriously was thinking about just getting another computer. I have less then 2GB of free space left and things are starting to fail (such as the motherboard). Lenovo has an awesome Outlet site and I priced out a MacBook that would have been nice. Problem is, I don’t have have $1500 lying around. Although I suppose I could get a pretty penny for my current Tablet…maybe $500? So I guess I would only need $1000. I still don’t have it.
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