Category Archives: Toughbook

Map A1 button on CF-20 and CF-33 to perform soft dismount from keyboard base

By | November 28, 2018
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This sniplet was written to work within a Powershell app deploy toolkit package.  If you are not familiar with that toolkit, get familiar with it, its a huge time saver. ## <Perform Installation tasks here> Execute-Process -Path “$envSystem32Directory\reg.exe” -Parameters (‘load HKLM\ImportedHive “{0}\Users\Default\NTUSER.dat”‘ -f $envSystemDrive) $bClickDefAction = [byte[]](0x25,0x00,0x53,0x00,0x79,0x00,0x73,0x00,0x74,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x6d,0x00,0x52,0x00,0x6f,0x00,0x6f,0x00,0x74,0x00,0x25,0x00,0x5c,0x00,0x53,0x00,0x79,0x00,0x73,0x00,0x74,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x6d,0x00,0x33,0x00,0x32,0x00,0x5c,0x00,0x72,0x00,0x75,0x00,0x6e,0x00,0x64,0x00,0x6c,0x00,0x6c,0x00,0x33,0x00,0x32,0x00,0x2e,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x78,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x63,0x00,0x66,0x00,0x67,0x00,0x6d,0x00,0x67,0x00,0x72,0x00,0x33,0x00,0x32,0x00,0x2e,0x00,0x64,0x00,0x6c,0x00,0x6c,0x00,0x2c,0x00,0x43,0x00,0x4d,0x00,0x5f,0x00,0x52,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x71,0x00,0x75,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x73,0x00,0x74,0x00,0x5f,0x00,0x45,0x00,0x6a,0x00,0x65,0x00,0x63,0x00,0x74,0x00,0x5f,0x00,0x50,0x00,0x43,0x00,0x00,0x00) Set-RegistryKey -Key ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ImportedHive\Control Panel\TabletPC\ButtonMaps\2’ -Name ‘ButtonID’ -Type ‘Dword’… Read More »

My First Chocolately Package [Approved] – BatteryBar

By | October 25, 2016
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https://chocolatey.org/packages/BatteryBar Chocolately is like apt-get, but for Windows.  My favorite thing about chocately is having the ability to reach out and update all of my packages with one command line “choco upgrade all”!  Making the package took a bit of trial and error, but it was easy enough.  It uses Powershell at it’s base and has… Read More »

“A required CD/DVD drive driver is missing..” error when installing Windows 7 on new Toughbook laptops. – Updated 2016-12-06

By | October 11, 2016
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!! UPDATE: 12/6/2016- If the script doesn’t work, try changing the index number being adjusted to #2. 2 things need to happen to fix this: Windows 7 install PE needs the Windows 7 USB 3.0 driver package injected. USB 3.0 Host Controller Driver: http://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/d… USB 3.0 Driver: http://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/d… A registry hack (for lack of a… Read More »

Split GPS COM Ports using com0com and hub4com

By | November 19, 2015
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Here is a script I wrote to split GPS COM ports to multiple virtual COM ports.  In this Create virtual COM ports 14 and 15 using com0com (Used a high number to avoid hitting a conflict with an existing port). Download link: https://code.google.com/p/powersdr-iq/downloads/detail?name=setup_com0com_W7_x64_signed.exe&can=2&q= start /w “” “%~dp0setup_com0com_W7_x64_signed.exe” /S cd /d “C:\Program Files (x86)\com0com” setupc.exe install 0… Read More »

Windows 10 “Upgrade” Drivers Released for the FZ-G1(Mark 3), FZ-M1C (Mark 1), and the CF-311(Mark 5).

By | July 29, 2015
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http://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/dl/search?q=Windows+10+Upgrade+Support+Download+Modules&button=&dc%5B%5D=002001&p1=&p2=&oc=&lang= Supported Models: FZ-G1 (Mark 3) FZ-M1C (Mark 1) CF-311 (Mark 5) * Drivers are meant to be used for upgrading from Win 7 or Win 8.1 to Win 10. -Brian G