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    T400: Vista service for fn/f5?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by puthupa, Mar 25, 2009.

  1. puthupa

    puthupa Notebook Consultant

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    I had some issues with Vista and turned off most unnecessary services to troubleshoot the issue. While doing so, I turned off most Lenovo services and now can't get FN/F5 to work in order to turn my Bluetooth radio back on. I thought the Access Connections Main Service & AC Profile Manager Service might do it, but no. Both Bluetooth Service and Bluetooth Support Service are running, and I can try to add a Bluetooth device through Vista, but I just need to turn the radio on.

    Any suggestions? I'd prefer not to turn on everything in case one of the Lenovo apps was part of the problem. Thanks!
     
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    Azla Newbie

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    You didn't accidentally change, so that when you press Fn+F5 it just turns on and off the wireless radios?
     
    Azla, Mar 25, 2009
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    puthupa Notebook Consultant

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    Fn/F5 doesn't work at all. I turned on all Lenovo services, got it back and turned the Bluetooth radio back on, but one of the symptoms of my Vista issues (high explorer.exe cpu usage) returned. So I've turned the Bluetooth radio on and turned off some Lenovo services and will just use the physical switch to turn WLAN/Bluetooth on & off.
     
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    Same thing happened to me. Fn-F5 never came back after I disabled some startup services.

    My fix for this is to create a desktop shortcut to
    "C:\Program Files\Lenovo\HOTKEY\TpFnF5.exe"
     
    raxen, Mar 25, 2009
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