Lenovo S/W Alternitives

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Lenovo S/W Alternitives

#1 Post by atomMan » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:47 pm

T60 / WIN XP

When i first fooled around with the proprietary Lenovo stuff (access connections, s/w update, etc., etc) i liked much of it, but as time went by i realized a lot of it seems to be bloated eye candy and that one can do most of the same things in windows without the Lenovo stuff. I have most everything working, but i'm still looking for some alternatives. I'd appreciate any ideas for these:

Toggle the BT radio without depending on any Lenovo s/w

Non Lenovo power manager that has advanced settings for CPU, fan, display brightness, etc.. I think this can be done by just adding the registry values for the windows power manager, but i'd rather have a utility.

Alternative UltraNav driver -- the windows driver is really limited.

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#2 Post by tomh009 » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:38 pm

NHC does a very nice job of power management -- and also enables you to undervolt the CPU for reduced power usage and lower temperatures -- although it does not control display brightness (I prefer to manage that manually anyway).
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#3 Post by atomMan » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:42 pm

I tried NHC before but i was hoping to find a util that did the display as well. That does seem like the best option so far though. Thanks for the assist!

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