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Which IBM/Lenovo/Thinkpad/Thinkvantage applications have you found useful enough to keep on your machine? Or, if you did a clean OS install, which IBM/Lenovo apps did you go back and install?

I'm trying to gauge which apps are actually deemed worthy of being on a T60 by the users here on this board. Maybe this could serve as a reference point for all those that ask what they should delete and keep when they first get their thinkpad.

Personally, the only thing I like is the fingerprint reader/software.

Please do a search. There are dozens of posts about this and no need to start a new thread over again. The software is fundamentally the same across all recent thinkpads (some differences, but much commonality). ... JD Hurst

Hi Laundromatt,

I basically kept all the ThinkPad programs.

What I removed is listed in this thread

Pre-installed 'Crapware' Removal -- what do you use instead?

This what others are using instead for defragmenting, etc.

I like most of ThinkVantage, I can't complain about any of it, so I kept it all.

On the other hand I removed some of the pre-loaded software I had no use for -- in fact IBM puts very little of that compare to other brands, here again I can't complain. Therefore I felt it was no use doing a fresh intsall of XP.