Thank you for your help. I took out some uneeded services. Here are some metrics from the beginning of a restart after closing all foreground applications to where the T43 is ready to start a foreground application. 5:00 from intiation of restart to complete shutdown and beginning of start up 0:50 t...

I had to get my T43 back from one of my assistants. I have uninstalled much of the unauthorized software, but T43 takes for ever to boot-up and do a shutdown/restart. There are all sorts of items in the "Startup" and "Services" list. I would post if I could make copies of the listings. What are the ...

We know from last time that we can get the files since last backup using rescue and recovery cd; however, it won't boot from rescue and recovery cd.

Hope that our CD drive is not bad, too.

John

We have a refurbished T43 that we purchased last year. HDD service life has been about three months. Fortunately, we purchased the service contract (Lenovo) as current HDD just gave a boot failure. Lenovo has another HDD on the way to us, but there is the costs of recovering data and reloading softw...

This T43 is a Type 1871-65U. We bought it last year from a used laptop dealer so we don't have orgonal discs. It has been back to the factory once under warranty for hard drive problems. Factory reinstalled OS and all Thinkpad software. OS is Win XP Pro SP3. It was running fine until July 4 when we ...