ThinkPad R61 + windows 7 64bit ultimate

Hi there,
in case anyone think about it, i just installed mentioned variant of windows. (W.7, 64bit, english version, ultimate)

1. install no problems
2. a few devices were not recognized
3. ran the windows update, applied critical updates
4. after this only two base system devices stayed in 'not recognized' state:

after i checked properties, it revealed:

base system device
with this HW ID's:
pci\ven_1180&dev_0592&subsys

5. it turned out to be (after some googlein)
- ricoh memory stick controller
- ricoh sd/mmc host controller

6. downloaded driver :
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-68053


7. saved the 7kss55ww.exe and used universal extractor (thanks John B) ( http://legroom.net/software/uniextract)
and extracted files in specified folder

8. update driver -> specify place of driver manually -> done

9. all is working so far, nice and clean => so far I can say thinkpad R61 is windows 7 ready

10. download system update v 4.0 (for windows 7):
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-73695.html

now i'm going to try and download some Lenovo specific SW and see what's gonna happen:

11. thinkvantage fingerprint sowftware 5.9.2 for w7 64bit ... done, in 'control panel / user account' now i can see 'manage your fingerprint data' - but i'm not sure, if this is the window feature, or result of lenovo drv install (didn't check it before i installed it)

12. thinkpad power manager ... done, see the battery indicator in tray

13. done with lenovo, don't want to have unnecessary sw slowing me down, last thing - new free antivir from MS:
http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

done, so far, so good

 

if you install the system update right at first it should install quite a lot of the softwares and drivers

i think you might need lenovo's driver to use with the thinkvantage fingerprint software, but i might be wrong

 

I you mean the ricoh problem - the lenovo update didn't solve it (already tried).
Well, I prefer to use drivers from MS if possible, have less troubles this way and i don't like to have e.g. like 3 wifi managing SW (from MS, lenovo, intel) etc.
Just trying to keep it clean and my experience is that full install of lenovo apps is slowing my laptop down ... but it's just me

 

the drivers and application are separate. you can have all the lenovo drivers without any of the lenovo apps. i prefer lenovo drivers partly because they are optimised for their systems (at least on windows 7), whereas windowsones are more generic

just sayin'

 

Thanks for sharing heliakon! I was wondering if Windows 7 works with R61, and you answered my question..