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I had the newest, 6.0.5514.55 pushed and installed on my T61p Win7 Ultimate yesterday. No matter how many times I un-check the show toolbox icon on the taskbar when I restart the program or the computer, the selection is checked and the **bleep** blue button remains on the Taskbar.

I beleive this is a coding problem and not a localized problem on my computer. The last iteration of the Toolbox had the same option and it worked. Since the T61p and I would assume other T series machines have the Toolbox mapped to the ThinkVantage button (provided hotkey driver package is installed), this redundancy is annoying and the inability to control it is even more annoying.

Any ideas? BTW, I was thinking of deleting the LenovoTray entry from startup, but I think that's for the camera and not the Toolbox.

Hola Mix**...
I have a T61P with nearly same setup as you ,,,,, and I only installed these TWO ThinkVantage Apps - Power Manager and Hotkey....(these two gives those nice 'bars' when u use the Voliume buttons)

Rest I never installed TvTST and everything works fine. MY main reason for not using (apart from Numberious BUGS) most ALL TVT software are a MAJOR Resource HOG - slowing the machine.The other reason was - most all of those 'features' are already part of Win7 and works lots better.

Also without TvT there is little or NO overlap of features from Win7 to what lenovo puts out.....eg Sys Update gets confused with ATI drivers after windows updates it.. etc etc....

hope this helps

Thanks, Mike. Yeah, I've avoided almost all the TV bloat and am primarily using System Update, HotKey for volume, brightness and radio control and the Toolbox for testing. I have the answer for disabling the Taskbar Icon, which is to got to the Taskbar Properties and disable the Toolbox. The app still works and is non resident, so no memory consumed.

The behavior of the Toolbox preference settings is still troublesome. I'm somewhat not surprised as Lenovo's QC is several layers below where IBM's used to be. The transition from professional business tool to consumer commodity item has taken its toll.

Cheers