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Cool. Thanks for explaining. I'm tempted to do that as well, but I'd hate to spend another $40 (or rather, give Microsoft another $40) and find out there's a registry tweak discovered in a couple weeks.

So you can do a full install with the Upgrade version, as long as you enter the key from the win8 system builder copy during install? I know you explained it, but I'm not sure I follow.

Upgrade and retail are more likely to go on old machines and the end user will expect their existing touch experience to work. Is there a retail version of windows 8 though? Is there even one planned? I admit, I jumped into the system builder version without looking much at the alternatives, since ...

to block it was silly and stupid. That's what I mean by arbitrary. They didn't need to block it. They decided to do it for no good reason (well, except to push 5+ touch screens). And no, I wasn't using my fingernail to scroll, it worked great with anything. I was able to use my fingers, my stylus, ...

If the trial version works, you could compare the registries with the activated version. Ask someone to lend you a laptop on which you can install Windows 8, keep it as trial, and get to work..... Will the registry entries be different if its a different make and model of laptop? I have a Lenovo th...

Finally, I find a place where someone else posted about this problem. I made a post on another forum about my issues here: http://www.eightforums.com/tablet-touch/11284-touchscreen-worked-preview-but-not-release.html Basically, I have an HP TX2000 that worked great with the preview. Upon buying the ...