T420/T520 and Windows 10

[vivaelt42]

How many of you have upgraded to Windows 10 and what are your experiences? Would you recommend upgrading?

[TonyJZX]

didnt have an issue with my t400/410/420

all with the 900p screens and either intel or nvidia gpus, all mine have the intel 5300/6300 wifi

[lembang]

How many of you have upgraded to Windows 10 and what are your experiences? Would you recommend upgrading?

I have installed that on my friend laptop, works great so far.
No issue except NVS driver has to be updated manually but other than that, most of them are working out of the box.
There are couple lenovo companions tools you might want to install to make it more proper.

Oh on more thing, probably require the SD card reader driver from win 7 to make it run.

[vivaelt42]

Is Windows 10 any faster or slower than 7? I am still on the 320GB 7200RPM SATAII drive

[ThinkPat]

Is Windows 10 any faster or slower than 7? I am still on the 320GB 7200RPM SATAII drive

On my T510 Windows 10 runs great, it certainly feels snappier than Windows 7, however the SATA on the T510 only does 3GB/s so could never max out an SSD. I opted therefore for a "hybrid" SSHD, a 500GB Seagate ST500LM000, which is basically an 8GB SSD sitting transparently on top of a 500GB 5400prm spinning disc, so you get SSD-like performance with oodles of space at a tiny price.

I would suggest you go ahead and do the upgrade, and if you then find it sluggish, consider an SSD -- I think your 7200rpm should be fine though.

Mine was a recent refurb W7 so I upgraded to W10 and then did a clean install. It's important to do the upgrade first so Microsoft can identify your machine as having been upgraded .... and subsequent installations of W10 will then come up already activated. If you do a clean install, it will be missing a few drivers but you can identify what's missing in Device Manager and then get them from the Lenovo website.

[terry_mccann]

Does anybody round here have an idea on this:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=119529

Didn't find a solution for that as yet on my T500.

[arthur_felipe]

Hello! I'm new to this forum.
I've just got a refurbished T420. Installed a Sandisk 240Gb SSD, ran a clean install of Win8.1 and upgraded to 10.
The system is indeed faster, but it took a lot of research to manage to install all drivers, and to even get to work the "?" key, which had to be remapped inside registry.
What doesn't work:

- Fn+F3, Fn+F6 and Fn+F8 keys
- BT led is solid green: turning it off inside Windows won't change it
- ThinkVantage button (I had it remapped using the "IBM>TPHOTKEY>8001" stuff in registry, but this trick doesn't work in Win10)

Otherwise, the system looks good and smooth, and everything else works.
An extremely important thing to do is install PowerManager: before that, the CPU fan was going crazy and getting me worried about it's lifetime.
I highly recommend the Win7 version, which works really fine, except for the Fn+F3 key, unfortunately.

I'm looking for a way to remap the ThinkVantage button.
Any clues?

[lembang]

@arthur_felipe
PowerManager sure thing as a nice piece of software to be on it.
Just to let you know. If you do a fresh clean install of Windows 10. You wont be able to get the PowerManager back. I changed mine in the power options only to use 99% instead of 100% so the fan will never go crazy.

[arthur_felipe]

If you do a fresh clean install of Windows 10. You wont be able to get the PowerManager back. I changed mine in the power options only to use 99% instead of 100% so the fan will never go crazy.

Have you tried creating a copy of the install app ("Setup.exe", I think), renaming the original to a similar name ("Xetup.exe", for example) and running the renamed app? I got it installed here this way.

[lembang]

Did a test and it says cannot run the program :/