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What is the best way to go when uninstalling CSS7?
Just use the Add/Remove or is there a better way?

CSS7 has been giving me a whole lot of problems when coming back from stand by, I don't know if this is a known issue with that version of CSS or if I just got a bad install of it from Lenovo.

Thanks in advance for help.

I uninstalled CSS7 because it was just annoying. I, too, had issues resuming from standby where it would forget that I had any fingerprints or passwords configured and wouldn't let me into my computer, forcing me to restart.

I don't need that level of security for anything I do on my laptop and it slowed my boot-up time noticeably when it was installed. I used the Add/Remove Programs route which seemed to work fine, and I have yet to get any errors. Note that all you need is the fingerprint reader software to use it to replace Windows logon passwords.

There is a wealth of information here (including how to reliably uninstall - which is not necessarily straightforward):
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... hlight=css
and here:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... hlight=css
and here:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... hlight=css

After months of struggling with CSS7 (admittedly on an X60s not an X60T) I concluded that:

• 1. CSS7 may be worth serious consideration after the next major release (CSS8?)
  2. the internal SOAP messaging that it relies on does not survive suspend resume very well at all
  3. the actual value (in terms of increased security for my data) lies in the embedded Utimaco product and the Password Manager which come with CSS7 - and I can buy the first of these anyway
  4. the actual increase in defence against some one who has physical possession of my X60s is not that great: Most thieves would be defeated by normal power-up password, hard drive password and XP security anyway and are only interested in on-selling the PC as a working unit - and the CIA and NSA (or here in Aus ASIO) won't be stopped by CSS7 since they can extract the private keys from the chip using heat/time/power signature analysis
  5. when I thought about it, I decided that my data was not exactly in the category that required extreme security no matter how much my clients and I would like to think so.

I have been very happy with my X60s since I got rid of CSS7, but I don't regret the amount of learning I did about data security in PCs when I was struggling with it.

Good luck!