Does the T500 have WiDi that permits seeing stuff from the laptop on a television? If not, what will do the job?



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Which operating system are you using?

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Are you sure you checked the mouse properties? You may have only looked at the trackpoint, not at the usb mouse you have installed.

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Yes, it will.

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The problem is that by default the mouse is set to awaken the system. Go into device manager and change the setting to disable this activity.

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This is often because one of the external devices, the keyboard or the mouse, or both, and the network card, too, is set to awaken the system. Check the settings in device manager and make the appropriate modifications.

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It there was the perception by users that this program is too expensive, it wouldn't sell very well. In fact, it is very popular. Bear in mind that this program addresses a niche market. Pricing is based on cost and demand, as well as competition. You might as well call mercedes benz greedy, or gucc...

But that bios is for r61 and r61i systems. Is it applicable on t61p machines?

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Though the price seems high it is important to note two things. First, you only pay once. No need to shell put money for new versions as they come out. Second, the program is very well maintained with updates once a month, if not more often. Sure you can buy 4 drives, but you have to put them somewh...

It would make no difference which operating system is in use, xp or vista. This seems to be a battery problem. Let us know, please, what they say when you call.

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It is almost child's play to dezone effectively a dvd rom player in a computer. All one needs is a program that interecepts the rpc stuff, so that you never reach the maximum of 5 changes. Anydvd is the one I use, and it is highly regarded. There are others that will do the job; the choice is wide. ...

Your references discuss hybrid sleep, which if enabled disables hibernation because hybrid sleep is a combination of sleep and hibernation. The computer is in sleep mode, but the system has also been saved to hiberfil.sys, so that if there is an interruption of power the computer can be brought out ...

But, hibernation means the computer is off, with everything saved to a file that is used when resuming. I don't see how the operating system makes a difference, except for the time and/or the ease of resuming. No activity is done. The machine is off. It seems to me that the battery is defective. -er

In fact, it was in hibernation, not sleep, so it wouldn't be using any current at all. I realize that in sleep there is a small amount of electricity used to maintain what is in ram.

I don't think has anything to do with which operating system. Hibernation is hibernation is hibernation.

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If I leave my t61p in hibernation for 2 weeks the battery is discharged. I rather doubt this normal, or am I mistaken?

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Software does the job of dezoning any dvd on a computer's dvd rom player. Anydvd is among the best known. I use it myself. What such a utility does is to interecept the request to see how many times a zone change has been done, so the dvd plays. Unfortunately, for dvd players it is more complicated....

I had a problem with my t61p when I removed vista sp1 rc. It went into a loop as it tried to uninstall the 3rd item. No way of resolving the problem other than restoring from the hard disk to the factory installation. Therefore, I installed vista ultimate using a dvd, inputting the key, of course. I...

Of course! I should have thoiught of that.

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Thank you for the reply. One problem, however, may arise. What if the new vista overwrites critical drivers for the t61p?

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Is it possible to install vista ultmate over a prior vista business installation on the thinkpad (t61p)?



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Proteus wrote:Upgrade to latest BIOS, and Vista Sp1. If you have turbomemory, upgrade to 1013 drivers. Problem solved.

How does one determine if turbomemory is installed and active?

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The t61p comes with a basic version windvd installed. Is their any advantage of upgrading to the paid version?

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It is normal that corporate buying would be slow. Training all the people is expensive and impacts a current quarter's earnings. Few managers will do that. There are not a few companies still running nt 4!

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Who are the dealers with more reasonable prices for this new power supply?

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I got a bunch of disks with the t61p. I thought that was standard procedure.

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I would pull all the symantec stuff right away. It is nothing but trouble. I have the same system as you, albeit running vista, and don't have those problems.

Yes, it is private network, as are my other machines.

I disabled and removed norton immediately upon receiving the machine. I thought I had enabled network connections. Is there anything particular to do? I can access other machines on this small network.

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There is a nice solution within firefox, using a plug-in called nosquint. This permits you set the font size for each web site you normally visit. Some, as you know, have smaller size type, others larger, and nosquint solves the problem.


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My new t61p, running vista, can access drives on another vista machine, a desktop, and an xp machine, also a desktop. But, my vista desktop can't open and folders on the t61p. Is this some lenovo firewall blocking this? I have the drives on the t61p shared with full privileges for "everyone", as is ...