As a business owner, my response to Windows 8 is "Red Hat." After all, why should I pay to train a lot of very productive employees, and pay MS an arm and a leg on top of that, to help the company be more like Google? However, with the little $5 add-on I mentioned, it's OK. Wait until you see Office...

Install Windows 8 on an SSD with at least 4GB of RAM and you will be amazed at the speed. If the user hates the interface (as most of us do) you can get a $5 applet at stardock.com that will give you a Windows 7 start menu. I have an X61t with Win8 64-bit and an X60t with Win8 32-bit and feel like I...

Does anyone know what kind of tape is suitable to use as (what I assume is) antistatic and heat resistant tape that is on the 7mm disk drives for removal assistance in X220s? I want to replace my SSD with a larger one now that prices are dropping and want to avoid using tape with adhesive that will ...

You can revert to the classic interface in Windows 8 with a registry hack. You can find it with a search engine; I don't have it with me now. I think it enhances performance almost as much as an SSD although I haven't actually tested.

Something has recently caused a drastic increase in the boot time of my X220 i7 with 8GB of RAM and the 160GB SSD (4286-CTO). I think it may be the display driver because the lag seems to be a delay with a black screen between the time when the "starting Windows" flag disappears and the GUI appears....

Thanks. Nice to know.

Wilson

System Update has downloaded over 1.5GB of files to C:\Program Files (x86)\Lenovo\System Update\session since I got my X220 in June.

Will I cause problems if I move these to somewhere other than my system drive (an SSD)?

I recently purchases about 10 x2x and X1 systems. One X220 came with a loose connection on the motherboard (intermittent power-offs when typing or moving machine) and one X1 came with a non-working mic. I think both probably are motherboard issues, and Lenovo will handle them with on-site warranty s...

Does anyone know where to get a 7mm SSD>200GB? I am getting a new X220 and need a larger HDD. I would prefer 256GB. I can find these on the OEM sites, but can't find any available for sale.

Thanks.

Ordered X220, i7, premium screen with 6300 WiFi and extended battery on 5/11. Expected ship date is 6/24. Selecting a new unit was a contest between aging eyes (wanted a 520) and aging back (got the X220). However, working with the 201T has convinced me that the smaller ones have the display power f...

Does anyone know of a 802.11 n card that will work in an X23 2662-EEU? I realize I probably will have to run at least one additional antenna wire around under the keyboard.

If the system has a card that's not on the BIOS whitelist, will the system refuse to boot or just make a rude beep?

IMO, the 5100 takes too much power on battery. I haven't had other problems with the 5100 - the reception has been good. However, the excess power draw isn't as bad as that one as on the F307g WWAN adapter that came with my T500. If I don't get one of the new x series (easier on the back) I definite...

I had the same problem on my T500 switchable with Win 7 x64. Support told me to uninstall the Win7 power management driver, power program and Access Connections and install the Vista versions. I did that and it worked for a few days although i didn't like the Access Connections. I already had the WA...

I had the same problem with my T500 with Win7 x64 and called Lenovo support (which turns out still to be IBM support). Support told me to uninstall the power management drivers, power manager and Access Connections and replace them with the Windows 7 beta versions of the power management drivers and...

I had the same problem. Support told me to install the old power management driver, power manager and the old Access Connections for Vista which worked.

I have Win7 x64 Pro installed clean.

Does anyone know of a generic program to that enables use of the TPM chip for password management? The Client Security Solution for x64 (Vista x64 or Win 7 x64) is incompatible with an app I can't stop using.

To get the ThinkVantage solutions, copy the C:\swtools folder to somewhere temporary before you install. Everything is there, although Lenovo is posting updated software for Win 7.

When IBM supplied upgrades to Vista from XP, it sent what appeared to be plain Vista upgrade DVDs with none of the ThinkPad applets. Consequently, to get the Lenovo applets you had to copy the C:\SWTOOLS folder to a new location before doing a clean install. I would assume Lenovo will do the same bu...

I do on my T500. I did the same thing you did (with 7 Ultimate x64 RTM OS) and it works. I have no idea why.

It's out? Where?

You're entirely welcome. The instructions weren't; I just pasted the advice from the other poster into a text file and saved it. Lenovo will, I'm sure, fix it when it releases the new files for Windows 7 RTM. By the way, other than the time to download the app from Symantec (whch didn't occupy my at...

During the beta, a clever poster suggested the following, which worked for me with Win 7 RTM x64: Not sure if this is well-known or not, but I went through a bit of trouble figuring out how to install the Client Security Solution on Windows 7 and then getting the Password Manager to work with Firefo...

I have Win7 x64 RTM installed on my T500. The beta x64 fingerprint software works (except for an occasional "splashscreenwindow" refusing to go away after logon). However, I cannot get the system to accept fingerprints for the power-on and HDD passwords. The message asking for biometric logon appear...

Here an x61T (7764) with Win7 x86 RTM hibernates and resumes from sleep just fine. After installing Win7 clean, I installed the beta drivers for the system and the normal Vista x86 drivers / ThinkVantage apps that weren't on the beta driver site. I didn't install the Password Manager. I am amazed th...

The version I mentioned is the latest version. I updated it at some time in May, well before the RTM became available.

Cheers,

The BIOS version I have has a release date of 27 May 2009, v3.01-1.03. The procedure I followed worked in the beta, RC1 and RC2 before RTM. For the beta and RC 1 (before the most recent Bios at least for beta), I also tested the procedure on the x86 version of Win7 and found it worked. Once the virt...

On my T500 Switchable with Win 7 x64 RTM, I have had no problem. I had the Intel display on during setup, then installed the system interface driver, and the power management driver, then the switchable graphics driver for Vista x64.

I have Win7RC x64 installed on a T500 with switchable graphics. To my surprise, everything I use - all the Lenovo X64 drivers and applets even including the power management and switchable graphics - worked from as soon as I finished installing the Lenovo drivers/apps. The only thing I don't use is ...

I forget which one of these devices I had on my T500 / switchable graphics, but one was the WWAN network adapter (the modem installed with Win7RC) and the other was the 5-in-1 card reader. The WWAN adapter (mine was AT&T/Vodaphone) said it wouldn't work with this version of Windows, so I told it to ...

It was the chipset support.

Now everything on the system works with Vista drivers just as though it was fresh from the factory.

Thanks,