Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox on the IdeaPad

To All,
I posted this comment on the main Lenovo/IBM thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo-ibm/628362-best-selection-power-manager.html

I have been researching the LTT Power Manager feature, and I found out that it's only for ThinkPad versions. If you want more information, see this link:

Power Manager for Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Vista (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad...

Still, I like the Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox. All of the LTT tools, except the Power Manager, work on my Y470. The LTT hardware integrity scan is comprehensive. A full scan generates a report containing every device/driver, AND all software/version on the system. System history allows me to track all of the changes made to the computer, by date, and any critical events. The drive space manager generates a graphical report of the scanned drive. I don’t know why, but I love seeing a picture of all the user space taken up by the various programs, and utilities, on the drive. Did you ever wonder what Lenovo’s D: drive contained? Yeah, I could have opened each folder, but to have the contents displayed in such a user friendly manner, gives me the ability to actually grasp the data space being used. See the attached pics.

I don’t know. Some of you might consider the LTT as bloat ware. I don’t. Here is the page where you can download the LTT. Click on Diagnose and Fix - Self Diagnostic tool:

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/diagnose-and-fix/default.page?


So, do any of you IdeaPad users have the LTT installed on your laptop? Do you like it?

Thanks,
DragonRider

 

I use it on my Thinkpad, and I was wondering if there was a version for the Ideapad.

Maybe I'll try installing Thinkvantage on my Y570...

 

Seeing as you have both systems, is the ThankPad LTT Power Manager program, better than the Y470/Y570 Energy Management system? I use to have a T41 a few years ago, so I don't know if the Power Manager has been improved since then. I realize this is purely a subjective comparison.

I'm not going to install the LTT Power Manager on my Y470. I only wanted to know which system you prefer.

As I've said, I really like the toolbox. I'm glad that it works on the Y series IdeaPads.

Thanks,

DragonRider

 

Well, I've only had the Y570 for a few weeks now, and haven't gone on the road yet with it. The biggest difference I can see is that the Ideapad energy management has a setting for "best battery health", which keeps the battery charged at 50%. It's meant for people who use their laptops plugged in for most of the time; apparently it's better for the battery if it maintained a 50% charge rather than constantly being at 100%. On my Thinkpad I generally fully charge the battery and then remove it if I'm not going on the road for a while, and maybe occasionally put the battery in and run for a while and then recharge back to 100%.

So if what they say is true about the "best battery health", I have to give the Ideapad system the better recommendation unless there's a more recent power manager for the Thinkpad that can do this. Of course, if I had to run out the door with the Ideapad on a moment's notice, I'll be going out with a 50% charged battery, which is a bit unnerving.

 

Fletchman1313,
Thank you! This is exactly the type of information I was looking for. I wondered if the LTT Power Manager had a “Best Battery Health” feature. I didn’t buy my Y470 for the portability. Most of the time, I have it plugged in to a power source. So I use the battery health setting. That keeps the battery charged to around 45-50%.

I use all of the other tools in the LTT Toolbox daily. I just checked “Ignore This Warning” under the Power Manager tab, and it gives me a “Green” √ under the setting.

Thanks again,

DragonRider

 

Well, I installed it. However, the hardware scan keeps failing for the SATA drive. It could be that RapidDrive is messing around with the scan.

I'm also not sure if the System Update works either, although it could be that everything's up to date.

System Info and the Disk manager works though. Nice!

 

I also run multiple Lenovos, a T420, T61p and the Y570. Personally, I would love to have the ThinkPad power manager for the Y570.

Although the "Best Battery Health" setting is a good idea, the problem is that even if you set it to that and then use the computer on battery for any significant amount of time, it will revert to "Optimize for Battery Runtime." I was cruising the lenovo forums and apparently this is the way it is designed (darn computer intelligence lol)

I wish I had the option to manually set charging thresholds (40-50% on my other laptops). If anyone finds out how to do this on a Y570, please let me know!