Help me calibrate the touch screen of a TX1000

I was asked by a friend to install Vista on a brand new HP TX1000 notebook. Everything went smoothly, except for the touch screen. First, the screen pointer is off from the actual stylus touch point. On the center of the screen it converges, but as I go away from the center it increases; at the very edge, the offset is close to a centimeter! (for example, there is no way to click the close button of a maximized window, and I can barely get it to open up the start menu). Second problem is writing with it : I have to write extremely slowly and have to apply a good deal of pressure. Otherwise it won’t detect continuous strokes.

Only configurable settings I found for the touch screen is the “Pen Flicks” tool. Other than the sensitivity setting (which didn’t help), all other settings are for configuring gestures and behavior of the pen. I didn’t find any special downloads or drivers for the pen/touch screen under HP support section either. Is there any way to calibrate the screen to make the screen pointer and the actual touch point to converge ? and also to make it behave in a more natural way?

I noticed a protective film pasted on the screen, should this be removed for the touch screen to work properly?

All comments are appreciated.

 

I usually choose the medium point to write and point with. Seemed like the fine point doesn't really catch on the writing mode. Also writing with medium point is more accurate and don't have to put too much pressure on the screen. Typing is actually faster than writing. Wished it had a digitalizer pen instead of touch sensitive screen.

 

What do you mean by medium point? A software setting or the tip of the pen? There is only one pen and it has somewhat pointy tip.

Yes I know typing is much faster. But there has to be something wrong with this, I mean right now the pen is pretty much useless. Forget about writing, at least I can’t get it to work as a pointing device because of the huge offset between the screen pointer and touch point. Do you have the same problem ?

 

Medium point on the software writing style, not on the actual pen! The software has like 50 sentences for you to write so it can learn your handwriting style, after that it's pretty good in recognizing your handwriting, a bit slow but good enough.