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Having spent the 4th of July weekend in computer hell, I've emerged alive - with T60 running smoothly. The long story began with the following symptoms: humungously long boot and power down times, need to manually kill apps - seemingly related to Productivity Suite and wireless - that would not close, weirdly truncated Productivity panel (missing Find Wireless Connections) uninstall of Symantec, install of Eset SS, removal of Symantec folders from registry, etc. I was prepared to wipe and do a factory install; found that Rescue and Recovery was corrupted - uninstalled and reinstalled fresh download. Long story short: simply uninstalling Access Connections seems to have restored the machine - a 2623 - to adolescence. But I want Access Connections back.

Question: How can I effectively reinstall Access Connections? I see from the readme for the latest version that I need to update Hotkey software, drivers for the Intel 3495 network adapter, etc. before I contemplate an install. An attempt at uninstall / reinstall without these steps seems to have prolonged some problems (no Find Wireless Networks in Productivity panel) and create others. I'm sort of a newbie - I've been to the Intel site, etc., but I'm having trouble telling which are the right pieces.

Help! And Thanks in advance.

You can go to the Lenovo support site, enter your model type and pull up the driver matrix page for your machine. From there, you can find and download wired and wireless drivers and Access Connections. Once downloaded to a known location, you can install them, and you should have Access Connections back.
... JDH