T61 + Win7 : any Lenovo registry patches needed ?

[kbarb]

I installed Win7 on my old T61 - no big deal and Windows Update found all the drivers.

I remember when I did the clean install of Vista on my X60s - following John Robbins clean install instrucs . . . .
http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jrob ... plets.aspx

. . . there was a whole list of Lenovo/Thinkvantage things to consider installing afterwords.

Since I'm trying to keep it as clean as possible, I'm just wondering about the registry patches -
if someone has a factory install and could check their SWTOOLS\OSFIXES\ directory and look for any of those - for Win7 ?
- or happens to know anything in this regard ?

I see a section on Patches on the T61 Download page, but most of those apply to "Client Security Solution", which I'm not using .

On Robbins' blog there, the reg patches are (and these are all for Vista) :

2. Enable Device Initiated Power Management
SWTOOLS\OSFIXES\VISTA\ENBDIPM
This registry entry was set in the default installation so I turned it on as well.

3. Change Idle IRP Timeout for Fingerprint Reader
SWTOOLS\OSFIXES\VISTA\FIRPON
This registry entry was set in the default installation so I turned it on as well

4. Enable USB S3
SWTOOLS\ISFIXES\VISTA\USBPMON
This registry entry was set in the default installation so I turned it on as well

Anyone have an idea ?

[TuuS]

My personal opinion is you're overcomplicating things, and also I strongly recommend you do NOT get your driver updates from microsoft. I setup countless thinkpads with win7 and it is extremely simple.

Step 1.

Install windows from a setup disc with the latest Servicepack and critical updates integrated

Step 2. (have network drivers handy just in case the default windows drivers won't let you get online)

Install Lenovo System update and let it find all the latest drivers approved by Lenovo

Step 3.

Let windows update search for updates, but only install them on a case by case basis after reading what they are and what they do. Windows will often list the latest drivers that the manufacturer of a piece of hardware lists, but in some cases they can cause problems. I usually won't install any driver updates beyond what lenovo offers. If I do, I'd consider it experimental and will be prepared to revert back if I run into problems.


This procedure works well for me and always produces a stable system. I've seen many times when careless use of windows update can make a system unstable. One example of what i'm referring to would be if an Intel driver issued an update to fix a conflict with certain dell laptops. Windows update would see it as a later version and offer to install it, but obviously lenovo would never test such a driver so it would be experimental at best, unstable at worse. With drivers, it's often best to stick with what works. If a new release lists something important in the release notes, then I'll try them, otherwise it's only looking for trouble to update just because it has a newer version number.Newer isn't always better.

However, this is offered as "opinion", not fact. This method works for me. Others may be happy letting windows find their drivers, so please don't think I'm saying one method is correct and the other is wrong. I'm simply saying this method works best in all my experience, it produces a stable system with least amount of effort or problems, so you're not likely going to need to post in forums to figure out why things aren't working as you expected, and I've never had to do any registry patches on a clean install of windows 7 after installing in over 100 units.

Good Luck

[kbarb]

Thanks for your reply.

However, I have a stable and clean system, and it wasn't complicated at all.

What's more, I don't want any more of Lenovo's - what I consider to be bloatware - on the laptop, any more than necessary. The resource use was untenable, and a lot of the software duplicates Windows utilities anyway.
All I use are the TPM fingerprint software and the hard drive protection, which are actually useful to me.

Back to my question - which is not anything to do with drivers - I'm asking if anyone knows of any registry patches that they found were necessary, or already installed with a factory install of Win7.
They should be in SWTOOLS\OSFIXES\ .

Thanks.

[RealBlackStuff]

The registry is the last thing you'd want to mess with.
"if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

[kbarb]

Funny you should say that, as it is actually the very last thing on the checklist.

All I can say is, read a couple of books on it, try it, you get used to it. I've never had a problem. You do have to have some idea what you're doing so in general, it's not the time for a beginner or trial & error.

One more time . . . If you look in the factory installs, at least for my default Lenovo Vista installs, there are built in, already done, Lenovo registry patches in SWTOOLS\OSFIXES\.

I'm curious if there are any in the Win7 SWTOOLS\OSFIXES\ directory.