T61 working great

Since there seem to be so many posts about problems I figured I would post up my sucess. I installed VISTA from an OEM DVD that I was able to obtain using the key from the underside of the laptop. vista home premium with out anything installed had 35 processes running. I then proceded to follow the guide found here http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=126971&page=1 but I found that there were 2 or 3 areas where the drivers had actually been updated from the article so you may want to use it as a starting point. I did not install the system update and manually installed the hard drive protection system. otherwise i dont care about using the fn button and the only thing i lost was the ability to scroll using the middle button on the ultra nav. i dissabled the intel raid utility. i can still controll the lcd brightness but with out the hud. and there is a switch on the t61 to enable/dissable wireless so no need for fn key.

i have zone alarm and mcafee 8.5i installed other than the listed software and have 55 processing running

not one blue screen and office 2003 loads almost instantly it is fantastic....

using windows wireless.....

turbo cache works but reports lots of different sizes depending on where i was looking but intels driver/console reports it is 1 gb. i am not sure it actually does anything better for me but none the less bragging rights are there...


1 7658CT CONFIGURED SYSTEM
7658CTO CTO THINKPAD T61 WITH INTEGRATED GRAPHICS 1 Y
42V8190 SBB INTEL CORE 2 DUO PRCESST7300
42V8011 VBB MS WIN VISTA HOME PREMIUM
42V9565 SBB MSWIN VHP32 US ENGLISH
42V9323 SBB 14.1 WXGA TFT,W/OCAM.
42X0905 ** SBB INTELGMA960W/1394, SMARTCARD
41W2063 VBB 2GB PC2-5300 667MHZ 2DIMM
42V8195 SBB KEYBOARD US ENGLISH
42V9329 SBB UN(TRACKPOINT+TCHPD)
42V8704 SBB 60 GB HDD,7200RPM
42V8193 SBB INTEL TURBO MEMORY 1GB
42V8714 SBB CD-RW/DVD-ROM COM,UBAYSLIM
42X0805 SBB PC CARDSLOT EX CARDSLOT
41W1685 SBB 11ABGWIFI WL LAN USEULAANZ
62P6054 VBB INTEGR.BLUETOOTH PAN
42V9338 SBB 6 CELL LI-ION BATERRY
41W1787 SBB CPK NORTH AMERICA
27R1769 SBB PSTN CABLE
42V9391 SBB LANG.PACK US ENGLISH
42V9428 SBB PACKAGING US
42V9638 SBB 14.1WXGAW/OCAMWWAN11N,W/BT
39T6440 SBB 56K V.92 DESIGNED MODEM
42V8646 SBB CL.PLATE T61WLANANDBLTOOTH
42V9665 SBB FCC, LABEL
42V9667 SBB GEO LABEL US, WLAN,BT
41W2300 SBB LOGO PLATE
42V9632 SBB INTEGRWWAN ANT:14.1" 11ABG
42X0920 SBB INTELGMA 960 W/1394,W/AMT
42V9651 SBB MT 7658 SYSTEM LABEL
42X0929 SBB MECH MISC PARTS
42V7972 SBB MS LABEL (VISTA PREMIUM)
42T7135 SBB INTEL LABEL CORE-2
42X0914 SBB NO SIM MODEL
42X1352 SBB PC CARDSLOT EXPRESCARDSLOT
42V9633 SBB STAND LCD C/B:14.1"W/O CAM
42X0915 SBB WLAN MISC PARTS
42X0912 SBB WWAN MISC PARTS
42X1482 SBB BLUETOOTH W/ ANTENNA
42X1702 SBB BLUETOOTH SCREW
42V8063 SBB MS WAU ENGLISH NA-U MODELS
42V9341 SBB 1GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SODIMM

 

SUccess for me too!

Just got off the phone w/them and exemption on 15% restocking fee to send it back!




COngrats on your notebook green- I'm happy that you're happy with it. I'm sure the overwhelming majority of users ARE very satisfied. It's the few of us that hate it who are going to b1tch the loudest, of course.

 

Glad it worked well for you. My clean install has been stable too. Out of curiosity, which video card driver did you install? The one off of lenovo's website, or the one from the nvidia site.

 

i have the integrated and installed from intel's site...

 

Ah, I lose points for reading comprehension

 

It's okay. Your name implies an excuse

 

My thinkpad was terrible out of the box. I originally had vista basic on it, threw an oem copy of ultimate on it. The laptop was an absolute nightmare running it. i spent a few hours getting all the drivers and trying to get the thinkvantage button to work properly.

Once I got it working to my liking, i realized that i didnt need all the features that ultimate offered so i reverted back to basic using the lenovo recovery dvd's(installing ultimate somehow screwed up the hidden partition and left me unable to recover directly from the HD). After I recovered from the DVD's, i immediately restarted the PC and hit the thinkvantage button and AGAIN re-recovered my computer, but this time from the harddrive.

The reason why I did this is because recovering from the HD allows you to choose what you want to and don't want to install.

I disabled all the crappy windows services that I didnt need, including their wifi finder(I like lenovo's much better)
My laptop runs like a champ right now.

 

So how many processes do you have running right now? I'm guessing that when you recovered from the HD and chose what you want and didn't want to install you used base software administrator. Was it easy to figure out what you want and didn't want to install. I've delete stuff manually and have my computer down to about 80 processes on startup.

I was looking at the what processes use the most resources. There is something called dwm.exe which is the aero interface I believe. There is also something called taskeng.exe that I'm not sure about. Does anybody know anything about them?

 

DWM is the Desktop Window Manager = Aero
taskeng is the Task Scheduler Engine

 

so do I need taskeng? I don't use any task scheduler on my computer unless I'm using it for something I don't know about.

 

you need it - some Vista services use it...anyway - on my machine there are only 2 instances of it and combined they take up only 5Mb ram...hardly something to worry about!