Running Windows 8 Metro Apps on the dual 1024 600 7 inch touch screened Toshiba Libretto

prepare to witness the power of this fully  Apperational Windows 8 dual screen tablet 

You bought your Toshiba  Libretto, because you yearned for the Courier that was no to be. I bought my Libretto so I could play Tie Fighter on one screen streamed through Naclbox whilst running Windows 8 Metro apps on the second screen. No I didn't,  for when I purchased the tablet it was just a plain old Windows 7 dual screen tablet and we had no idea of the changes Windows 8 was going to bring. 

in this scientific test we pit the anger of birds via Chrome App vs the Anger of commuters via a Win 8 Metro News app

This dual 7 inch touch screened originally Windows 7 machine comes with the fastest wifi , msata ssd the brightest and sharpest  7 inch touch screens of any tablet. It is also red hot to hold, sounds like a jet taking off in use and generates more hot air than the average hair dryer or l33t rig, in fact with all the noise, heat, hot air jets and fans it reminds me of a l33t rig shrunken down to a palm sized dual screen tablet.

However hot it gets the Toshiba Libretto is still the coolest of devices you can own ,a concept tablet made to celebrate 25 years of Toshiba innovation, it is also somewhat of a collectors item with very few released or existing right now. 

You will have seen from my older videos that running Windows 8 on the Acer Iconia 6120  shows us Microsoft definitely is thinking of dual screen tablet users, but that is a dual 14 inch surface machine.  What the Libretto gives you is a chance to live that Courier dream, with a tiny palm or book sized dual screen form factor. Thus it  has been an obsession  of mine for some time now to run Windows 8 on the Toshiba Libretto and I mean fully not just desktop but Apps and all...

Just one very insurmountable barrier stood in my way , a troll if you like of the most annoying kind... a troll named screen resolution....

The Toshiba designers choice of 1024 by 600 screens or more accurately the insistence of Microsoft having a min res of 1024 by 768 for Windows 8 Metro Apps (as they were called in them thar days) meant that although I have been running every flavour of Windows 8 on the littlest dual screen tablet, this has been without access to the Apps or other features like panes and charms...

Today all that changed I finally got round to solving the problem... 

And so here is the full Windows 8 experience including Metro apps running on a dual screen 1024 600 res tablet that thinks it has two 1024 768 res screens  in landscape.. 

and portrait or the Courier orientation to all those Libretto owners out there ... 

How I got this to work is somewhat of a mystery to me ,  many months ago I read that you must change a few registry lines, using  a well know trick to enable higher res outputs on 10.1 inch notebooks that are otherwise locked to 1024 by 600 resolutions , on the Libretto though I added another display value for display 2. I have no idea if this is needed but since there are two displays it made sense  to create two values.

Many W100 owners have tried this and the machine starts to display more Metro apps than normal but does not allow changes in resolution. So just as they gave up so did I ...but not today ..for today I trundled on...

Desperate to find a solution I also tried various resolution changing applications but they did nothing ..except load a lot of adware....

Uninstalling them and the adware asap, what I did not realise is that I had through the registry alterations already set up the machine to display higher resolutions ... 

Random desperate googling revealed the wonderful video below and in seconds I had my first Metro Apps running and open on the 1024 600 touch screens of the Libretto. This is the missing step that prevented W100 owners till now actually running Win 8 Metro apps and features like multi pane swiping ,back swiping, back back forth and forth swiping... you know the whole Win 8 touch shebang...

follow these simple instructions and pretty soon you too can have the fruits of two so called evil empires running side by side on your dual touch screen Windows 8 tablet ..

or blogging in Chrome whilst catching up with your favourite Windows 8 Pro User Interface Apps ..or Metro Apps as we used to be allowed to call them...

If you want to try this for yourself I would first follow the above video from the Windows 8 desktop, installed on your Libretto, if that fails then follow the reg alteration advice for running netbook displays at 1024 by 768

1) Run regedit from the app search charm on Windows 8 2) highlight the highest tree level (Computer)3) Search for “Display1_DownScalingSupported” and changed it from “0″ to “1″3b)some have reported that there may be more then one entry that needs to be changed so make sure to search the entire registry4) Restart the system

At this point past attempts to run the Libretto at 1024 by 768 failed as no new resolution options show up when using screen resolution, but you do see more Metro Apps being displayed on screen 1.

On the Libretto we have two screens so I added another line wherever I saw a “Display1_DownScalingSupported”  I created a   “Display2_DownScalingSupported” and create a value for it of "1" 

Now follow the instructions in the video above to make the alterations in resolution, remember the mistake people have made to date is just try to change the resolution using the screen resolution options, you will not find the new resolutions listed there on the Libretto. You must hit advanced settings in screen resolution, then click on Monitor, uncheck the hide modes that this monitor cannot display box, go back to adapter, click on LIST ALL MODES and change the resolution to 1024 by 768 here. And do this for each of your 2 screens. 

Then orient the screens the way you want them using an external mouse , to get the portrait view set the res to 768 by 1024 using the same technique..

I am still in shock about this most impressive display, more to follow when I can figure out why one screen is panning and the other is not, still mustn't grumble how many people out there are using dual 7 inch touch screened i3 powered Windows 8 pro/RP tablets ... ? 

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