Whoa, I'm'a not crazy after all. Been getting that occasionally recently as well, but no idea as to why. I've been thinking about nuking R&R since I have my own backup scheme that I prefer anyways.

1) In the BIOS, you'll need to disable the pre-desktop area if you intend to remove the service partition. Then, when you install Ubuntu, tell the installer you want to repartition the drive. OR you could use one of the graphical partition programs from the Live CD portion of the install media. As I...

The key combos are more likely the result of the fact that you're pressing too many of certain types of keys at once. This triggers a beep on all Windows platforms, there is a thread elsewhere that describes how to tell Windows to stop doing that. I think part of the problem with the beep is that it...

Frankly, I had some issues with WMP11 interfering with other video applications, so I rolled back to WMP10. O' 'coss, I didn't notice any problems at all until I was tweaking around with services trying to shut down the useless WMP services for broadcasting your playlist, so I can blame myself for t...

My GPU usually hangs around 60-65 when I'm not doing a whole heck of a lot, and the fan does run at 3000 or more RPM's when it's running, which is prolly part of the problem - the fan shuts all the way off when it's done with a cooling everything below a threshold. My graphics card is an ATI, and AT...

If you're using Firefox, you'll have to manually install the CSS plugin. There's a thread on using CSS 7 with Firefox 2 and miscellaneous discussion about CSS 8. Internet Explorer should just work "out-of-the-box."

It uses a randomly generated password for the private disk created initially via the CSS wizard. There is no recovery of said password that I know of. If you manually use Private Disk to create the drive, you can set the admin password yourself and not have to worry about it.

PC Linux OS , despite it's unoriginal name, is another good Linux for people who like full GUI, although it only has 32-bit releases right now. Also, at the time of this post, the web site appears to be down. Like (k)Ubuntu, the installation media is also a live demo CD. The site, when it goes back...

You can disable the XP indexing service in Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services; look for the "Indexing Service", right click, stop the service and set it to "Manual" or "Disabled" to prevent XP from starting it back up on the next reboot. You can also disable the service on a per-disk ...

I was thinking of trying out PCLinuxOS , mostly because I've tried just about every distro at this point. I've tried the live CD on the T-60; ATI X1300 driver does not appear to come on the CD, but the site has nice instructions on how to install the proprietary driver from ATI. Unfortunately, now i...

svchost.exe is responsible for a number of networking or related services in Windows; some of which are necessary and some which home users might not need. However, aside from the plethora of services taking up little chunks of memory, I have never seen it munch up CPU time. However, there are sever...

In theory, the security chip is a "more secure" way of encrypting/decrypting sensitive information. However, the use is rather limited since the only application that I've used with the security chip is the ThinkVantage Password Manager; I tried replacing Mozilla's software security device with the ...

The refresh rate mostly applies to CRT monitors; specifically the functioning of the electron beam used to colorize the screen. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refresh_rate for some more of the details.

I had a similar problem with a T-30 a few months ago. It turned out not to be the cheaper and easier part to replace - the inverter - but the backlight itself had up and died. Not saying you shouldn't try the inverter first, but if it's like the problem I had it more likely is the light itself.

I don't know. I haven't tried CSS 8 with Firefox 2 yet, and don't plan on doing so; I've actually removed CSS altogether a couple days ago. CSS 7 and Firefox 2 worked (for a given value of worked) with my solution described above, although I never tested HTTP-driven authentication with the password ...

It has 64 MB on the card, and will acquire up to 448 MB more off the system RAM if it requires more memory and if the memory is available, for the grand total of 512 MB that it claims in the software views; source http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3002 under the graphics review.

1) The fingerprint reader stores it's stuff in the security chip's memory, and I don't think it is possible to configure it to export to another location and perform lookups there. 2) It should be possible to setup the computer such that the smart card is required in any case, but I'm not familiar w...

If I were to install Vista (though I have no intention of doing so), I would prolly turn off about, oh, 95% of the eye candy and services in any case... hey, that's what I do on every Windows. Frankly, the only reason I would upgrade from XP to Vista would be for utilization of the 64-bit processor,...

You could try http://www.mueller.ch.vu/misc/tp600e_en.html, which used Ubuntu 6.06, and has some extra installation instructions (Link found from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2119444). Hopefully something in there might help with the hanging issues.

Shortcuts don't work that way, unfortunately, because they aren't file links in the sense that UNIX style systems understand them (although I hear Vista has support for such links now?) Here is some information on the C:\I386 folder that might clear things up: http://www.andybrain.com/archive/mb/i38...

The Security -> Fingerprint Reader menu in the BIOS allows you to set whether the internal reader gets priority or the external reader gets priority.

Yes, if and only if you know the password required to mount the drive. The volume created for you automatically by CSS/Private Disk has some randomly generated password. If you created the volume yourself, you should have set your own password and should be good to go.

Another alternative, if you're feeling adventurous, would be to check out this ThinkWiki page on setting up ultrabay device hot-swapping: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Lt_hotswap Do note the supported models: Supported models The driver has been explicitly reported to work on the following models. I...

On my T-60, just entering the BIOS and going into the Security menu presents options for clearing fingerprint data and encryption keys from the security chip's memory. You might have to re-enable the chip for those options to be present - I haven't looked at what's available with the chip disabled a...

It is best to partition when you don't care what happens to existing data on the disk; partitioning is a great way to lose stuff. Having said that, if you're going to be partitioning and then installing Windows to a new partition, it doesn't really matter what the filesystem on the disk is since tha...

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That's more dependent on what kernel version they're using; however, unless your computer has relatively new hardware, you should find everything you actually need is supported. In my experience , the only stuff that tends to be problematic are newer Intel wireless cards and prolly fingerprint reade...

Edit Note: The solution below uses Client Security Solution (CSS) version 7. Also, I use the abbreviation TPM several times throughout the solution as an abbreviation for Thinkvantage Password Manager - I am not referring to the "trusted platform module", that is, the security chip itself, with tha...