Configure Windows 7 and drivers on Panasonic Toughbook CF-18 Mk2

Purpose and Background

These instructions, paired with the set of accompanying drivers, guides the reader to install Windows 7 on a Panasonic
Toughbook CF-18 Mk2. The audience is expected to be somewhat Windows/PC/driver/software installation savvy, (4/10) but
not to be particularly familiar with Toughbooks.

These instructions were copied directly from a couple of posts on the NotebookReview.com forums 1, 2 and all credit goes to
those authors and the sources they credit. In his post, rck documented how to put W7 on a CF-18 digitizer model. Then
johnlowe showed how to use it with amendments to cater for a touchscreen model, and how to make the three front panel
buttons operational for the touchscreen configuration.

The unit I upgraded for a friend was a CF-18 model DHB22KA, which can be traced to a large lot produced for Telecom
Australia (Telstra). Those units were in use for several years before being retired. Many resurfaced on eBay or were
purchased by 3rd party Toughbook integrators. This particular unit was refurbished by Rugged Depot and resold as one of
several to a county fire department here in the USA, where it saw daily service again until being retired in late 2014. It is still
in great condition, and will be upgraded with the intent of seeing several more years’ private use.

What’s required, besides the Toughbook

I recommend that you upgrade the RAM and replace the original HDD with a compatible SSD, to maximize the benefit. If
you intend to do that, you should do that first!! It will speed up the following process significantly. (I did not have those, so
my experience was based on the original HDD and a 768MB RAM configuration. Can you say, “Paging to disk…?”)

Either way, you will need:

• An external DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive that can be connected by USB3, independently powered.
• A Windows 7 for x86 (32-bit) installation CD. Full version, not upgrade. (A ‘slip-streamed’ W7 SP1 iso with all the
latest updates would be ideal, but I started with an original and let it go through all the updates.)
• The set of drivers I used for this particular unit (zipped and supplied along with these instructions)
• A separate computer where you can browse as needed to find different drivers. Start here:
The Ultimate Quick Search and Toughbook Resource Thread4
The related CF-18 FAQ5
• Spare time: this was not a quick install. Set up in a place where you can leave the laptop for two or three days, going
and coming as you have time. After my preparatory research into the hardware config of this model (my first
encounter with a Toughbook), my guesstimate of the real elapsed time for what follows was more than 20 hours. Of
that, the actual hands-on working time, including downloading drivers, preparing a USB and trying to get it to boot,

1
HOWTO: install Windows 7 on a CF-18 Mk1 Digitizer, by rcx
2
How to: Install Windows 7 on a CF-18 Mark 3 Touchscreen, by johnlowe
3
There are posts in the forum about getting CF-18 to boot off of a USB stick, and that could certainly have sped things up. However
my initial attempts were not successful, and according to various posts, the ‘trick’ discussed didn’t seem to be a sure bet. Since I
already had an old, removable laptop CD drive on hand, I used that and moved on.
4
http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/427461-ultimate-quick-search-Toughbook-resource-thread.html
5
http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/651584-panasonic-Toughbook-cf-18-thread-faq.html

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 jury-rigging the CD-ROM drive at 11pm as ‘plan B’, updating the drivers, figuring out what went wrong and trialing
alternate drivers, installing utility programs, etc, was probably still about 12 hours. If the set of drivers I’ve used
works for your CF-18 without a hitch, then you’ll probably beat that time significantly. A slip-streamed W7 SP1 iso
with all the latest updates will save a bunch more. Start with upgraded RAM and an SSD, and maybe it’ll just be one
(long) evening project…

Perform Initial Windows 7 Setup

1. Install Windows 7 to an empty partition (clean install)

2. Go to Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Update
3. Run Windows Update after the installation completes

1. Verify that you are connected to the Internet

2. Go to Start > Control Panel
3. Click "Windows Update"
4. In the list of options along the left column, click "Check for Updates"
5. You will likely see text that "important updates are available" and/or "optional updates are
available"
6. Click either of those to view a list of the individual updates (drivers are usually listed as
optional updates)
7. Select the updates to install
8. Click "OK" (in the lower-right corner) once you have selected the updates to install
9. Click the "Install Updates" button to begin the update process

4. Note: The Windows Update process commences by informing you that some number of Important
Updates has been found. You give it the OK to install them. The cycle frequently finishes by
requiring a re-boot. After that, you may be surprised when the system informs you that it has found
Y number of new Important Updates. This is typical and, when installing W7 in 2014, you will
encounter more than 200 ‘Important’ (mandatory) updates, not to mention many more optional or
recommended ones, before the whole process is complete.

You do not need to wait on this process to finish before starting to install the drivers.

However you probably should let Windows Update get to and complete installation of Service Pack
1. There were several dozen important updates it had to install before it got to this. That will take
some time.

If you find that Windows Update is competing for resources and bogging down your work, you can
stop it. First stop the active update task. Then go into Start / Control Panel / System and Security /
Windows Update, then in the left-hand panel Settings. There you can either select ‘Let me know
that updates are available but do not download them’, or ‘Do not check for new updates.’ Either
will stop the process. Make yourself a note here, and then do not forget to set it back to ‘update
automatically’ once the whole driver installation process has been done.

Install the Toughbook Drivers (in order)

Follow this order of installation exactly. Be aware that this process will take several hours. Check each step off when it
has successfully completed, so that you can keep track of where you are. When prompted to re-boot, do it. If you run
into a snag, try to resolve it rather than skipping it. Later installations are said to often depend on earlier ones.

1. Intel Chipset/INF Update Utility

• Run infinst_autol.exe

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 2. Panasonic Common Components

• Run Setup.exe

3. Panasonic Misc Driver *

0. Open the Device Manager

1. Expand the "System Devices" category
2. Right click on the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Embedded Controller device and select "Update
Driver Software"
3. Select the "Browse my computer for driver software" option
4. Select the "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer" option
5. Click "Next"
6. Click "Have Disk..."
7. Select the folder that contains the file newmisc.inf from the Panasonic Misc Driver download
8. Click "Next"
9. An "Update Driver Warning" message will appear saying (among other things) Windows
cannot verify that the driver is compatible with the hardware and that the hardware might not
work correctly if the driver is not compatible.
10. Click "Yes" to continue installing this driver

4. Sound

• For models with an Intel 82801DB/DBM AC '97 Audio Controller, skip this step n/a for my unit.
• For models with a SigmaTel device, install the SigmaTel audio driver
• Run Setup.exe for the Windows Vista SigmaTel driver
• If that does not work, download and run the Windows XP version of SigmaTel
driver for the CF-19 mk2 model

5. Touchpad Driver

0. Open the Device Manager

1. Expand the "Mice and other pointing devices" category
2. Right click on the PS/2 device and select "Update Driver Software"
3. Manually select the driver using steps similar to the following:

0. Choose to browse your computer for driver software

1. Click "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"
2. Click the "Have Disk..." button on the next screen
3. On the "Install From Disk" dialog, click "Browse"
4. You will want to use the folder containing driver fidmous.inf

6. Hotkey Driver

0. Open the Device Manager

1. Find the section that includes the "unknown" devices
2. Right click on one of the unknown device and select "Update Driver"

• This unknown device is typically the first of two unknown devices that will be
listed
• If you select the wrong unknown device, the install will fail. No worries, just pick
the other unknown device.
3. You will want to use folder containing the driver file hotkey.inf

7. Hotkey Appendix Application

• Run Setup.exe

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 8. Hotkey Settings Application

• Run Setup.exe

9. Tablet Button Manager

• Run Setup.exe

10. Tablet Buttons Driver

0. Open the Device Manager

1. At this point, there should be just one "unknown" device
2. Right click on the unknown device and select "Update Driver"
3. Manually select the driver using steps similar to the following:

0. Choose to browse your computer for driver software

1. Click "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"
2. Click the "Have Disk..." button on the next screen
3. On the "Install From Disk" dialog, click "Browse"
4. You will want to use the folder containing the driver MeiTBtn.inf (found in the top level of the
driver archive file extract; do not use the one in the amd64 folder)
5. Wait for the driver installation to complete; if the install fails, try the other unknown device
6. Manually copy meitbrc.dll to C:\WINDOWS\system32
7. Double-click on (run) the file MeiTBSet_STANDARD.reg. This will update the registry.

11. Panasonic Notification Utility *

• Run Setup.exe

12. Concealed Mode Utility *

• Run Setup.exe

13. Loupe (Magnifying glass) Utility *

• Run Setup.exe

14. Battery Recalibration Utility *

• Run Setup.exe

15. Wireless Switch Utility *

0. Run the file Delay.reg to update the registry

1. Run Setup.exe

16. Wireless Connection Disable Utility *

• Run Setup.exe

17. Display Rotation Tool *

• Run Setup.exe

18. LAN Driver for Realtek 8139

• Run Setup.exe

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 19. Port Replicator LAN Driver (I skipped it; don’t have one.)

• Run the file Win32/Setup.exe

20. Bluetooth Stack Driver (I skipped it; I don’t think the unit has a built-in BT. Can add later if I’m wrong.)

• Run Setup.exe

21. PC Info Viewer *

• Run Setup.exe

22. DMI Viewer

• Run Setup.exe

23. Video Driver for Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME Devices (This one item alone can take a few hours!!)

0. Preparation

. Be sure there are no other video drivers installed (you will want to start out with
just the standard VGA driver)
a. Extract the Intel 82852/82855 video drivers somewhere, but do not install
anything

1. Turn Off the Digital Driver Signing Check

0. Create a shortcut on the desktop to cmd.exe

1. Right-click on the shortcut and select "Run as administrator"
2. When the command window opens, execute the following commands:

1. bcdedit /set nointegritychecks ON

2. bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
3. Reboot

2. Install the Video Driver

NOTE: This bit of rigmarole is necessary due to the Intel 82852/82855 device present in the
CF-18. It is likely that Windows 7 will appear to ‘allow you’ to select a higher resolution of
1024x768, so you might be tempted to just skip these steps. Don’t. Without the right video
driver setup, you won't be able to run the full display resolution. When you get the right driver
set up, you’ll see a big difference!

0. Open the Device Manager

1. On the pull-down menu at the top, go to Action > Add Legacy Hardware
Note: at first, Add Legacy Hardware may not appear. Wait a minute and
try again. This seems to take a few seconds to appear...
2. Acknowledge the initial dialog screen
3. Select "Install the hardware that I manually select from a list (Advanced)"
4. Click Next
5. Select "Display Adapters" and click Next
6. Click the "Have Disk..." button
7. Navigate to the path where you extracted the Intel drivers. The ialmnt5.inf file will
be in the Win2000 folder
8. IMPORTANT: Do not select the 82852/82855 GM/GME drivers, select the
945GM driver (yes, this is counter-intuitive)
9. If prompted to reboot, DO NOT REBOOT
10. If told the 945 device might not work right, acknowledge the warning to make it
go away, then run Action > Scan for Hardware Changes

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 11. "Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controllers" and a "Mobile Intel(R)
945GM Express Chipset Family" devices should now be listed under "Display
Adapters
12. Wait for Windows to finish doing its thing installing the drivers in the background.
The first time through, there will be a tool tip from the system notification area
stating that the 82852/82855 device has been installed, providing a visual
indication; on subsequent runs, though, that tool tip might not appear, so watch
the system notification area and give it time.

(After maybe 10 minutes, I was sure it was all finished. But I clicked on the icon
to expose all the icons in the system tray, and it turned out the driver installation
process was still going on. I could tell immediately because the little ‘driver
installing’ icon with the magnifying glass was still going round and round. If you
see this, keep waiting. ) Only proceed when that has finished.

13. Disable the 945GM device

14. IMPORTANT: If you do not wait for Windows to complete the driver install
process going on in the background prior to disabling the 945GM device, I have
seen Windows 7 re-enable a 945GM device that had just been disabled. If the
system is rebooted with the 945GM device enabled, Windows 7 will roll the driver
back, and you will have to repeat the step.
15. Reboot

3. Verify the Video Driver Installation

0. Upon rebooting, Windows 7 may roll back one or more of your display devices to
Standard VGA

(This was the case for me. In fact I had to loop back to step 0 of “Install the
Video Driver”, above, two or three times. Patience… it’s worth it.

1. Open Device Manager

2. Check the Display Adapters
3. If there is only one 82852/82855 GM/GME device, or if there is a new "unknown"
device, precisely repeat the above driver installation section (include the
instructions for disabling the 945GM device); in the case of an unknown device,
run the "Update Driver" action for that device instead of running the generic "Add
Legacy Hardware"
4. When everything is working, you should have "Graphics Properties" and
"Graphics Options" menu items in the pop-up menu when you right-click on the
desktop
5. The "Graphics Option" item should have sub-items for display rotation
6. Reboot and verify that Windows 7 no longer rolls back your display drivers after
rebooting.
4. Protect the Video Driver Installation

(This did not work for me, but I think it’s very important that you try it. Maybe Windows had
already installed the one we’re trying to avoid, and I had already overwritten it. Could be that’s
why I had to loop through the driver installation procedure multiple times…?)

0. Go to Control Panel > System and Security > Windows Update

1. Windows will likely tell you that an important update is available
2. Click the "important update is available" link (do NOT click "Install updates")
3. Right-click on the "Intel Corporation - Display - Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express
Chipset Family" update
4. Click "Hide update" from the context menu
5. If the display driver gets updated to what is currently on Windows Update, the
system will revert back to the Standard VGA driver.

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Run Windows Update
NOTE: Be sure you have protected the video driver as noted in the "Install the Video Driver" section above

1. Verify that you are connected to the Internet

2. Go to Start > Control Panel
3. Click "Windows Update"
4. In the list of options along the left column, click "Check for Updates"
5. You will likely see text that "important updates are available" and/or "optional updates are available"
6. Click either of those to view a list of the individual updates (drivers are usually listed as optional updates)
7. Select the updates to install
• Again, remember to exclude the Intel 82852/82855 display adapter
• As of the time of this [forum post] writing, the latest version of Realtek's RTL8139 Fast
Ethernet driver is not available on Windows Update, so you may want to deselect this driver
update if Windows Update still shows the update Publish date as 10/6/2008
• Realtek
• Driver Date: 7/23/2009
• Driver Version: 6.111.723.2009
• Windows Update
• Driver Date: 3/31/2008
• Driver Version: 6.108.331.2008
8. Click "OK" (in the lower-right corner) once you have selected the updates to install
9. Click the "Install Updates" button to begin the update process

NOTE: You may need to repeat the Windows Update process multiple times, especially after a clean install. Sometimes
one run of Windows update will subsequently make other updates available. So, when you go back after the first set of
updates have installed and re-check for updates, there might be a ‘few’ new updates there that hadn't been listed
previously. I had 125 new ones, which took about 6 hours for the system to install overnight.

Get Windows to recognize that you have a Touchscreen model

At this point, everything except for the front three buttons referenced above should all work correctly. It will take several
hours to do all of the above steps. Yet if you have a touchscreen model (tapping on the screen with your finger will work,
not just tapping with the stylus), you won't yet have "Tablet PC Settings" or "Pen and Touch" control panel items at this
point.

1. Open the Control Panel. Navigate to the "Mouse" control panel item, open it, and it should have a tab for the
Touchscreen. Go ahead and calibrate and test your touchscreen now. This is the control panel item you will use to
change settings for both your mouse and your touchscreen. If you don't have a touchscreen tab in the Mouse control
panel, you didn't do something right. If your screen doesn't auto rotate when you put it in tablet mode, you didn't do
something right! You also shouldn't have any unknown devices in the Device Manager, now.

2. Download the Wacom digitizer driver from here: ftp://ftp.wacom-europe.com/pub/WINDO...s508-6_int.exe. This is a

slightly different version of the driver mentioned in the forum instructions for building a digitizer version of the CF-18, but
this works fine.

3. Use the installer and install the Wacom driver you just downloaded. It doesn't check for a digitizer at all. It will take
several minutes to install. You don't need to restart your computer!

4. Now test the buttons on the front panel of your CF-18. They should now work. They are: Keyboard (keyboard icon),
Enter (circle with dot in it), and Rotation (‘L’ shape with curved arrows.)

5. In the Control Panel, you should now have three new items: "Tablet PC Settings," "Pen and Touch," and "Pen Tablet
Properties". Ignore the latter one, it won't open if you don't have a Wacom digitizer installed. The other two items will
open, but they don't control your touchscreen, they are for a digitizer model only. However, you CAN use the "Tablet PC
Settings" "Button" tab to change what your front buttons do as outlined above. There is really no other use for these
control panel entries as far as I can tell.

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Configure and Customize Tablet PC Buttons
Tablet PC Buttons can be configured by going to Start > Control Panel > Tablet PC Settings dialog > Buttons tab, but I
wanted to do more than what that dialog provides.

Turn Off Display – I (the author of this post) wanted to set the press-and-hold action for the display rotation button to turn
off the screen. Unfortunately, the Tablet PC Settings Control Panel Dialog only allows one to associate the "Turn the
display off" action with press-and-release events. A little registry hack took care of that—
* Press-and-Release - Rotate screen
* Press-and-Hold - Turn off display

The simplest way to make these changes is to either download and run the "TabletPCButtonMappings.reg" file that is
included in the attached "TabletPCButtonMappings.zip" file or perform it manually as follows:

* Create a text file and give it a *.reg name (e.g. ButtonConfig.reg)

* Open the file you just created in a text editor (e.g. Notepad)
* Copy and paste the contents of the "code" section below in the file
* Save the file and close the text editor
* Double-click the file to load the settings into the registry
* In all likelihood, a permissions prompt will appear - allow permission

Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TabletPC\ButtonMaps\0]
"ButtonID"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TabletPC\ButtonMaps\0\PrimaryLandscape]
"DefAction"=dword:80000006
"DefHoldAction"=dword:80000002
"DefHoldActionData"=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TabletPC\ButtonMaps\0\PrimaryPortrait]
"DefAction"=dword:80000006
"DefHoldAction"=dword:80000002
"DefHoldActionData"=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TabletPC\ButtonMaps\0\SecondaryLandscape]
"DefAction"=dword:80000006
"DefHoldAction"=dword:80000002
"DefHoldActionData"=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TabletPC\ButtonMaps\0\SecondaryPortrait]
"DefAction"=dword:80000006
"DefHoldAction"=dword:80000002
"DefHoldActionData"=hex:00,00,00,00

Lock Workstation - Then, I wanted the press and hold action for another button to lock the workstation

1. Select "Start a program" as the action

2. Enter "rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation" (without the quotes) as the program location

Manage Display Rotation

There are several different ways to manage display rotation.

• Video Driver Context Menu

• Right-click on the desktop
• In the pop-up menu, navigate to Graphics Options > Rotation

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 • Select another rotation setting

• Video Driver System Notification Area Icon

• Click on the Intel Extreme Graphics 2 for Mobile icon in the System Notification Area
• In the pop-up menu, navigate to Graphics Options > Rotation
• Select another rotation setting

• Video Driver Hot Keys

• Test without other programs running to verify that another program does not intercept these
hot keys
• Default hot keys are as follows (think of the arrow as pointing to the TOP of where the screen
would be if in Notebook mode):

• <Control><Alt><Up>
• <Control><Alt><Down>
• <Control><Alt><Left>
• <Control><Alt><Right>
• To Enable/disable and/or customize these and other display Hot Keys, go to Start > Control
Panel > Display > Change Display Settings > Advanced Settings > Intel Extreme Graphics 2
for Mobile tab > Graphics Properties > Hot Keys

• Tablet PC Buttons
• To configure, go to Start > Control Panel > Tablet PC Settings > Go to Orientation (link toward
the bottom of the dialog)
• Choose the orientation sequence and click OK
• Press the screen rotation button on the front panel of the computer
• Each time the screen rotation button is pressed, the display should rotate to then next rotation
angle specified in the orientation sequence

• Automatic Display Rotation Tool

• To configure, Right-click on the Display Rotation Tool icon in the System Notification Area
• Click Settings
• Select the default angle for both laptop mode and tablet mode
• Click OK
• Flip the screen from notebook mode to tablet mode and vice-versa
• As long as "Keep Angle" has not been selected, the display should automatically rotate to the
specified angle

Normally, the Automatic Display Rotation Tool is already running on boot; however, if it is not, it can be launched from
Start > All Programs > Panasonic > Display Rotation Tool. This program will not actually rotate the screen; it will simply
launch the utility and load it in the System Notification Area.

You’re finished!!

Further information you might like to have:

Calibrate the Digitizer (DIGITIZER MODEL ONLY) n/a for the unit I upgraded
Some users may have problems with the digitizer's edge action--for example, the mouse pointer won't go all the way over
to the right edge, causing problems with the close button, scrollbars, show desktop, and anything else that might be along
that edge. One trick I was taught by a WalkAbout (now DRS) tech was to offset the calibration click for the Wacom
digitizer.
NOTE: These steps assume the right edge is the problem edge.

• Go to Start > Control Panel > Tabelt PC Settings dialog > Display tab
• Click the "Reset..." button if it is not disabled (need to be in "full" calibration mode [16 calibration points])
• Click the "Calibrate..." button
• On the four right-most calibration targets, do NOT click in the dead center of the target; instead,
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 • Click the tip of the left line--vertically, your click will still be centered, but horizontally, your click will be offset
to the left
• Click the other 12 calibration targets the same as you normally would

Picking the optimal offset distance to click can be an inexact science, but for me this calibration method has greatly
improved pointer accuracy along the right edge.

Customize the Windows 7 System Properties Screen

Special thanks to db04p71 for this tidbit.

• Download the attached OEMLogo.zip file

• Copy the included OEMLogo.bmp file to the \Windows\System32 folder
• Run the included OEMLogo.reg file to update the registry

Customize the Desktop Wallpaper

Need a desktop wallpaper to put the finishing touches on your new install? Check out the posts in this thread for some
Toughbook-themed wallpaper.

Is it sensible to distribute a static set of drivers?

I think so. This hardware debuted back in the first few years of the previous decade. The hardware vendors have long since
been through all the revs they’re going to make to these drivers. XP and Vista are retired, and W7 itself may stop being
supported sometime in the next 12 months. So you are not likely to miss a patch. But if you prefer to download them
yourself, I’ve attached a list of the drivers I started with. Later had to change one from the Vista version do the XP version, not
noted in the following documentation, but included in the zipped package of drivers.

Hardware Upgrade Recommendations

• For the Mk2: upgrade the unit to its max 1,280MB RAM using 1 x 1GB stick of DDR PC2300 (or higher), CL3,
≥400MHz, 200-pin SODIMM RAM. That upgrade is straightforward, not addressed here. The ‘how-to’ is on
YouTube.
• Replace the original IDE (aka Parallal ATA or PATA) hard disk drive with a Solid State Drive (SSD). Due to the bus
speed and bandwidth limitations of IDE, PATA SSDs are only fractionally as fast as SATA SSDs. But compared to
the speed of the original 4200 rpm hard disk drive from 2004, any kind of SSD is going to get a ‘thumbs up’. Yet,
based on reading of people’s experiences here and in (among others) the ThinkPad T4x forum6, buying a state-
of-the-art mSATA SSD (SATA III 6Gb/s) and an mSATA-to-IDE adapter in a 2.5” sled seems to be a better option
for about the same price. Certainly more future-proof. That’s what I’ll try next.

6
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=112081&start=81

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