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T410 w/ Win 7 fresh install, driver and other questions

#1 Post by joejoe » Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:33 am

Hi,

Linux user here trying to get a Win7 lenovo going for my wife's mother.

It came with Win 10, so I immediately erased it and installed Win7. (My Windows using friends tell me this is the best course of action.) But oops, no drivers.

I downloaded the ethernet driver from here: https://download.lenovo.com/eol/index.html

But do I need to install anything else?

Is there one app that will suss all this out and install what needs installing?

With Win7, should I install some kind of antivirus?

thanks,

joejoe

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Re: T410 w/ Win 7 fresh install, driver and other questions

#2 Post by axur-delmeria » Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:37 am

Lenovo System Update is probably what you're thinking.

I don't personally use it though.

Drivers I usually install:
- chipset
- graphics
- LAN
- wifi
- Trackpoint/Ultranav
- Active Protection System (not needed if you only have SSDs and not HDDs)
- Hotkey
- card reader

Software
- Lenovo Power Manager
- Antivirus
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Re: T410 w/ Win 7 fresh install, driver and other questions

#3 Post by joejoe » Mon Jan 15, 2018 4:09 am

thanks for the info. time to go install some drivers.

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