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X200 - Can't get hotkeys working on Windows XP

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X200 - Can't get hotkeys working on Windows XP

#1 Post by joviravi » Sun Sep 29, 2024 3:35 am

I recently got a ThinkPad X200. I installed Windows 7 on it with recovery media from archive.org and confirmed that the hardware is functional.

Now I installed Windows XP and downloaded the drivers from Lenovo: https://download.lenovo.com/lenovo/cont ... /X200.html (wrote a python script to download all the files from that HTML page). I installed all the power management and hotkey related drivers, but the hotkeys do not work (volume keys, ThinkVantage, Fn+F2, Fn+F3, Fn+F5 etc).

Is there another driver that's needed to get the hotkeys working? I do not have any devices without drivers in Device Manager.
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Re: X200 - Can't get hotkeys working on Windows XP

#2 Post by TPFanatic » Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:57 am

You need to get an older version of Hotkey Features. Specifically 3.81 or older. The newest version, 3.89, for whatever reason doesn't work properly on a lot of ThinkPads.

Lenovo's page: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downlo ... 0-thinkpad

Direct download link for the version 3.81 package: https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/p ... vu23ww.exe

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