X301 and pre-installed Lenovo Software (ThinkVantage Tools)

[Edmond Dantes]

Hello to everybody.

I'm new in this community.

I've been a ThinkPad user since 1997 (600, R52, T60p) and now I've bought a X301 with Win 7 32 bit.

Comparing the Laptop with my previous T60p with Win XP, I have some doubts about the configuration and the preinstalled software (Think Vantage Tools) wich comes with it. Maybe someone here can help me.

My doubts are:

- why is not possible to install the "productivity center" and get it in association with the blue button? I miss it.

- why is the Active Protection software pre-installed (and loaded at startup), when the HD is an SSD one? Do you think it can be uninstalled?

- the GPS doesn't work (only one time I've got one satellite in an open environment after some 5 min, where my phone gets full GPS coverage in less than 1 min, otherweise normal situation is 0 satellite hooked)

- the fingerprint recognition at startup is very very slow

- every Lenovo software, when launched, opens very slowly (minutes).

This is the situation I've found out of the box. I'm wondering whether the Laptop has left the factory with a wrong configuration (I mean, for Win 7 and SSD) and if it would be possible to set everything in the right status through the use of System-Update.

Thank-you to everyone

Regards

Edmond

[huck]

When I bought my X300 it was acting weird all sorts or errors and Internet Explorer would not show up. I burned the recovery discs and wiped the HD and started over. No problems since. You might want to try that.

Huck