T60p fresh install - need help

i've been working with my new T60p for around 6 weeks. the problem is, the computer is too slow in everything (booting, shutting down) even got hang very often. one thing i noticed that for every first time i right click anything in windows explorer, it hanged for a few minutes, yes, minutes.

so i plan to do a fresh install for my laptop. can anyone help me with step-by-step guide on re-installing the necessary IBM software, including the one that operate the fingerprint scanner and the rescue and recovery thing? thanks.

 

Perhaps a less drastic step would be to go into msconfig and turn off everything you think is superfluous. A faster hard drive will help with the slow boot/shutdown time, but honestly how bad could it be?

 

Pardon if I'm stating the obvoius, but this is not a problem with the Lenovo computer itself. It's got to be a software conflict or virus issue. A T60p is plenty fast under ordinary circumstances.

Chris

 

yes... i already disabled all unnecessary items in startup via msconfig... i even turned off css to see if it helps... and i got a 7200rpm harddrive... so i'm just frustrated now that nothing works... reformatting is my last choice... also, i tried to play Call of Duty... the graphics was so bad... and i'm bit confused because it worked really well with NFS Underground 2...

 

hmmm thats really strange, instead of doing a fresh reinstall, why don't you try the recovery partition and make it original factory settings and install one thing at a time and see what happens. you might have a hardware conflict of some sort if after the recovery everything is still the same.

 

yeah maybe i should do that... by the way... how to do the reset to factory setting?? through the rescue and recovery when booting?

 

Well, I know one way:

Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore

However, that is the Windows System Restore. Does Lenovo have their own in ThinkVantage?

 

during the booting screen press the blue thinkvantage button.
This will get you into the rescue and recovery partition(assuming you didn't delete it), once logged onto to the rescue and recovery(with your passprhase or windows passwords, depends on your settings), click restore my system, ther is you option to restore to factory defaults

 

that won't bring the system to the factory default as if when you turn it on for the very first time, that only brings it to a prior date, and even then, certain settings will still be the same.

 

One main reason for people to buy thinkpads instead of junk dell is the ThinkVantage software, believe me, it's the best!

I just followed the same procedure restoring a X41 tablet to factory setting couple days ago.
FYI, if you have more than one partition, you CAN restore the OS partition to factory settings without affecting other partitions.

 

Actually, before you do all of that you might want to try this. I had the exact same problem that you are reporting, and believe it or not MS's database insisted that it was because of a corrupt file in my user profile, and for once they were right, I just created a new profile and used that, while deleting my old one and the problem cleared right up. I'm not promising that this is what is going on, but it's there's a good chance it is, and it's a lot less work.