ThinkVantage Tools folder hidden?

[pjk]

I had to do a fresh install of Win7-Ultimate x64 on a T400. (Most of my Thinkpad/ThinkVantage experience is on XP or prior.)

When I went through and installed the various Win7 drivers/tools, I found far fewer start menu shortcuts than in the old days.

In particular, some of the tools went into a "Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools" folder, and then the folder made itself hidden somehow. So I thought I had mistakenly made that folder hidden, and un-hid it. (Inside are shortcuts for Active Protection System, Power Manager, ThinkVantage Toolbox, and System Update)

Later, the folder shows up as hidden again. Can someone explain to me what is going on there? And while you're at it - what happened to the icons for the Bluetooth utilities, Hotkey features, "Access Help" and "Communications Utility"??

[sarbin]

i don't use a lenovo preload on my win 7 machines, so i don't know how the icons/shortcuts are arranged for that. on my clean installs, i've found aps, power manager, fingerprint reader and system update as control panel items. can't speak to toolbox, access connections or others as i have no use for them.

hth.

[pjk]

on my clean installs, i've found aps, power manager, fingerprint reader and system update as control panel items. can't speak to toolbox, access connections or others as i have no use for them.

hth.

Thanks for that, I did notice that some of the stuff that used to be separate apps are now in the control-panel. But it's still weird about that hidden folder, which has legit links to legit apps contained within it, most of which are not duplicated in non-hidden folders elsewhere..