This may actually be a very XP specific problem, but the Thinkpad forum seems a good place to ask this since I am not sure what the Thinkpad software does to the user account seetings and may have something to do with my problems: I set up a limited user account for my wife on my new T60. The first ...

dsigma6 wrote:i guess you don't want to buy one with a fingerprint reader?

Not necessarily since I have some already without. I am playing around with TrueCrypt right now...

I am looking for a simple solution to secure the data on USB sticks. Something that requires a password without installing additional software on the host PC and works on multiple platforms (XP, Linux, maybe Mac). Is that even possible?

[...] What "other computers" are of interest? [...] What is this statement and judgement based on? Direct comparison to what? [...] I find the Flexview a significant advancement. No doubt, the IPS screens are very nice. And yes, I had a chance to compare a 14" SXGA+, a 15" SXGA+ (non flexview) and ...

The other thing to make sure is that you are actually getting a flexview screen. I noticed that there is a lot of misleading and conflicting information floating around. Some people may tell you that all 15" screens have "flexview" technology others may tell you it's not available at all anylonger....

You're absolutely right. It is all a matter of what your needs are. As a semi-pro photographer I would ceratainly look at other computers too. What you are referring to as far as the "brighter"and "better" 15" screen is concerned, you probably mean the "flexview" technology. It's slightly better but...

A few notes since I was looking into similar options recently: Some people may tell you that you are comparing apples and oranges (no pun intended). I actually came pretty close to buying a MacBook pro myself but decided that for my needs, the ThinkPad was better and probably more reliable. I am sur...

Symantec is not a good anti-virus program? I do not have anyother's to use if I delete it. Hi HockeyZ39, you certainly should not operate without virus protection. I personally dislike the Symantec programs because they slow down the computer and I have had a number of problems regarding compatibil...

I used to do work with a company that had named its computers on its network after objects in the solar system, mostly Saturn's moons. That turned out to be a really good concept, especially since some of the computers were for designated tasks and shared by different people, including local files o...

I just had instant success with connecting my SonyEricsson W800i with T-Mobile service. I have an older plan that comes with what T-Mobile calls "t-zones" that comes with unlimited usage for only 2.99 a month. It can be easily connected as a modem, both via cable or bluetooth even though T-Mobile bl...

Hello Milan, I was asking myself similar questions a few weeks ago. It is the old dilemma in the ever moving hardware market. As soon as you buy it it becomes essentially worthless and basically toxic waste. I looked at it more from a utilization standpoint: I needed the best value/most useful lapto...

Another SoundForge user (I use SF, ACID Pro, Reason, and FL Studio). Yay! :D Unfortuanately, I don't think you are going to be able to plug in directly to the microphone jack and record as the Microsoft handler maxes out at 16-bit; unless you have another one or BSD/Linux installed. It isn't so muc...

Would anyone have any ideas on what I need to podcast? I got this thinkpad specifically to podcast. Is there anyhardware that will convert audio in directly to mp3/mp4? Not that I am aware of. I like Sound Forge for stuff like that. Just plug in a microphone (or whatever sound source you want to re...

Hi thanks for the reply The dv cam is indeed set to video and not camera. The camera is not appearing in the device manager. Unfortunately I know the conncetion is possible because this problem started once the original firewire card was stolen. I had no problems with connectivity using the origina...

Depends on how deep your pocket is. If its not too deep, try this (under $100 US) If its pretty deep, then try this (about $500 US) Thanks for the ideas. The EMU device is certainly nice. The Midi card would not help since I already have Steinberger stuff that can be hooked up to the USB port. I wa...

Does anyone here have experience using a T60 as a multitrack recorder/midi device? I have a ton of analogue guitar equipment and a midi keyboard with a usb adaptor. My knowledge of Cubase and setting up ASIO drivers etc is slim, but I have done it before and always ended up frustrated because of lat...

Hello, I am looking to use my T60 for some basic video editing as well and just bought a Adaptec firewire PCMCIA card. I am waiting for a connector cable right now so I have not tried it yet. Unfortunately, this is not the first time I read about problems with the firewire connections to a T60 and I...

Do you have any reason to doubt the veracity of the Device Manager? The Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-842 is dual-layer. No, I am sure the device manager is not lying to me ;-) I just found conflicting information about that drive regarding its dual layer capapilities. And I am still not sure which dual laye...

...do I really have in my ThinkPad? In the device manager it shows up as Matshita DVD Ram UJ-842.

Can I use double-layer DVDs or not? And if so which kind?

Yahoo Widgets is based on the original concept (Konfabulator). IMHO Google Desktop is well worth it... turn off that useless windows search utility. Once it indexes (which can take hours), it's indexing is transparent and it's speed/accuracy has no competition. Just make sure you turn off the multi...

TPadguy wrote:Where exactly is that switch and is it also on a T43?

thanks......

On the T-60 it is in the front on the left hand side.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2767

Here is a picture of it. Scroll down approx. have way trough that review.

Sorry if this sounds stupid, but did you check the little hardware switch on the front of the laptop that turns wireless devices on and off?

I am still tinkering with the wireless and network settings on my new T60 myself and don't fully understand the little IBM wireless access program yet. Did you check your firewall settings yet? Are you using the Symantec stuff that it came with? The later kept me from setting up the access to anothe...

So I am officially starting to dislike anything google other then the fact that I already predicted when they had their IPO that they would go down sooner or later for a variety of reasons. So my new T60 came with google desktop. Following the advice here and some common sense, I got rid of it. Howe...

When VMware starts, the CPU should jump up to Max right away and then go back down. When you start a VM, the CPU should jump up again. I haven't had a case of VMware not knowing how fast the machine was in a recent ThinkPad. I just use the ThinkPad Default power setting. Maybe try uninstalling and ...

Hello everyone, So, I finally had a few hours to play arounf with my new T-60. Quite nice so far! I ran into some issues with hooking it up to my network which turned out to be a problem with all the Symantec stuff it comes with. Once that was gone, everything worked so good that I decided to keep t...

larrys wrote:Several people, including myself, are happy with:

http://www.radtech.us/Products/NotebookScreenSavrz.aspx

Larrys,

Excellent. That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

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I would like to get some kind of a pad or so to put between keyboard and screen while on the go. Any suggestions? I just spent half an hour with google and all I found are these clear foils for screens and something by a company named crumpler that offers some kind of neoprene pad called "the slip" ...

It came in yesterday! It is a 2007C4U. I played with it last night for a little while and so far I am very happy with it. Seems like the right choice. I followed the advice here and ordered the 1GB stick from newegg for $80 instead of having the store put in a second 512 stick. And now it's about le...

Hi Matt, If I may suggest, rather than going by what the store tells you, I would simply ask for the model number (such 2623 D6U, etc.) and then go look it up on the lenovo site, you will get all the correct specs there. By the way you may want to do a price check on one of the online retailer such...