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    ThinkVantage not working after Vista Tweaks

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by linger, Feb 8, 2008.

  1. linger

    linger Newbie

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    Hi All,

    I've been tweaking Vista on my T61 and now the ThinkVantage button no longer launches the ThinkVantage Productivity Center. Any idea what I did?

    Your help is much appreciated.
     
    linger, Feb 8, 2008
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  2. ArchAngle

    ArchAngle Notebook Consultant

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    I've no idea what you did, but why don't you just go back to an earlier Windows restore point (if that's possible) and see if that fixes it?
     
    ArchAngle, Feb 8, 2008
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  3. linger

    linger Newbie

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    It'd be helpful if you could lead me through that step by step - as you can tell, I'm definitely a newbie in all of this.
     
    linger, Feb 8, 2008
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    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    Open the Start menu, type in System Restore, and choose a restore point.
     
    pixelot, Feb 8, 2008
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    helene Newbie

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    You may have disabled it from your startup programs.

    One way to disable it is through msconfig and unselecting "Thinkpad Productivity Center" under Startup. I think there is another way to do it so you may want to go back through the Tweaks guide you followed and see what you did to disable startup processes. This is assuming you did not uninstall the software through a Clean Install.

    To restore, you just type in restore in the search window to find the Backup and Restore Center (or go through the Control Panel) and "Restore files," but you can only do that if you have actually backed up your files.

    I'm a relative newbie myself so others can likely add more insight.
     
    helene, Feb 8, 2008
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