Windows 7 on T Series

[Xenomorph]

Yeah, LEAP is a Cisco-proprietary thing.

It's very insecure, and not supported by Windows natively. I know Ubuntu Linux supported it for some reason.
A dedicated Cisco client would need to be installed to get LEAP connections working in Windows.

Intel's WiFi application use to support LEAP as well in Windows 2000/XP (but not in Vista/Win7).

Anyway, I run Windows 7 on a T43, which is several generations older than the T400, and it works great.

All IBM/Lenovo software for it has been updated over the past few months to work with Windows 7. Active Protection, power management stuff, HotKey driver, etc, etc.

[2think]

Thanks for posting your comments. Now that Windows 7 is no longer just a release candidate, Technet has a couple of new videos on using MDT 2010: Video Part 1 and Video part 2. I am planning an upgrade across 5 laptops (3xT42 Pentium M 1.7 GHz running XP32, 1xT61 T7500 running XP64, 1xT400 T9400 running XP32). I prefer not to have both XP and Windows7 in separate partitions on the same hard drive.

• Can you comment on the best way to take these T series thinkpads from XP PRO to Windows7?

• What are your thoughts on using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010?

• Would you recommend using MDT 2010 instead of a clean OS install?

I appreciate your feedback.

[TheStranger2007]

I have T60 2007-c4u running Windows 7 RTM.

The one thing I cant get to work ( and I could not get to work with the win7 RC version) is the hotkey feature.

This is what shows on your monitor the volume bars when you hit up/down on your keyboard.


http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... .html#hotf

is what I tried downloading and installing.. no go!

any ideas? anybody have luck with this?

[matram]

You need to install the system interface drivers also. I believe they need to be installed before the hotkey driver.

For volume keys work. Brigthness does change but there is no OSD.

Mats

[2think]

What are your thoughts on using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 versus performing a clean OS install?

any takers?