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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Logitech IO2 Digital Pen and Windows 7 can work together

Windows 7 allows running old XP devices in a XP virtual machine.   You can download MS' virtual pc with XP mode here.  The magic in getting this to work is to have your Logitech IO2 digital pen in the cradle and have the cradle plugged in to your Windows 7 usb port at the time you install the virtual machine and install XP from a XP CD.  After you do all the usual updating of XP w/in the virtual machine, you can download logitech's last (RIP) driver for the IO2 digital pen here.  Press the 'External Mirror 1' link to download.   Also, be sure to click the 'USB' down arrow in the upper left hand area.  You'll see 'Digital Pen' as one of the USB devices.  Click the gray area to the left of that entry to activate that USB device so that virtual XP can see it.   That one cost me much head banging.

Here's a screen shot of my I)2 pen uploading 5 pages to the virtual XP machine running on Win 7.


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  1. AnonymousTuesday, January 11, 2011 10:28:00 PM

    You actually don't have to go through all of this trouble. You have to download the .net 1.1 files from MS plus the .net 1.1 service pack 1 install and then restart and you should have no problems getting the software to install or work.

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  2. AnonymousFriday, February 25, 2011 6:27:00 PM

    tried the .net 1.1 but that didn't work on 64bit os for me. If anybody has been able to get it working on 64bit please respond, otherwise I assume this .net 1.1 only works on 32bit

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  3. AnonymousMonday, July 30, 2012 10:39:00 PM

    A1 dose not have a pen and or win7\64 but thanks 4 above text :)

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  7. nSaturday, April 12, 2014 12:31:00 PM

    thanks mate! After about 5-7 years I managed to get my pen to work again!!!!!

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  8. AnonymousTuesday, November 22, 2016 7:31:00 AM

    I can confirm that installing .NET 1.1 Framework on Windows 7 will allow installing the software. Can be a bit tricky to install .NET first as it is an ancient version, Windows XP could use .NET 4.0.

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