Thinkvantage Password Manager

[Muse]

What is this???? My email program went nuts because of this. TPM was constantly undoing my changes to the application metadata, substituting its own ideas for what the data should be, putting ridiculous values into fields it had no business touching, and I couldn't find out what was doing it. I finally stumbled upon the answer. Now I'm wondering where this thing is. I can't find TPM, can't get access to it, Thinkvantage Configuration Help evidently doesn't know anything about it, Nor Thinkvantage Productivity Center. I want to turn the thing off. And just now I came to these forums and after Firefox asked me if it wanted me to remember my password (Yes!), TPM asked me. Now and forever my answer to that is going to be [Never], but I'd like to find it and undo whatever damage is in there. Where is it?

[Muse]

So, a little sleuthing around and I deduce that TPM is part of the Client Security Solution (I went looking for TPM in Add/Remove programs in XP). So I'm thinking I should probably get rid of CSS. I go to uninstall it and I get complaints that I have to close this and that program, basically everything open! So I close everything and I get a therm bar saying "Please wait while Windows configures Client Security Solution", "gathering required information," and the therm bar is 95% done but it just sits there interminably. Even a 2nd time after a shutdown, exactly the same thing happens. Looks like I'm SOL here. I may have to Ghost back my Dec. 31st backup. Maybe I can uninstall it from there. If not, whoa, R&R back to the default 2006 installation? Argh.

[Muse]

I was finally allowed to remove CSS. I seem to remember seeing a number of posts by people with Thinkpads who removed CSS early on. Is this indeed common? I assume that TPM is embedded in CSS. Odd that it's so hidden. It truly sabotaged my email client.