Windows 7 on Thinkpads

I just tried this and it doesn't seem to be working. I uninstalled the current driver and reinstalled the new one in vista compatibility mode but still no luck. Any other ideas?

I too am noticing better battery life with Windows 7 than with Vista Basic. I seem to be getting about 20-30 more minutes on a 6 cell battery.

Windows 7 seems to just work better than vista. Every time I opened my computer, it used to take about 3 minutes to connect to wifi, now it happens instantaneously . Also, outlook connects immediately with windows 7 whereas it used to take several minutes to connect on vista.

I love the taskbar. My screen looks so much cleaner and its significantly easier to navigate through tasks now. The only thing that sucks is when you use up all the space on your taskbar, it adds another row and you have to scroll to see it. Very irritating.

 

I am having a very good experience with 7 as well on battery life and general functionality. I am at a loss as to why this isn't working for you. Those seem to be the only drivers I needed to make it work, but I installed everything but power manager because there was a conflict. I have about 25 or 30 lenovo drivers that I routinely use on clean installs. I keep them up to date and I keep them stored locally.

 

Windows 7 sucks on my T43 with 2GB of ram. I switched to my quad core desktop with 8GB of ram. Works great now.

 

So I would like to install Windows 7 on another laptop harddrive I have lying around. I would like to have this harddrive accessible in my T61p as a secondary hard drive that would be placed in the ultrabay compartment using an adapter. My plan was to take that spare harddrive and insert it into an external harddrive casing I would pick up and install Windows 7 on it. Once installed, I would be able to use it on my T61p. I am just not aware of the process for installing W7 on an external harddrive. Can anyone help me out?

 

I'm back with one more problem. I installed the Lenovo drivers for my integrated webcam, but they don't seem to actually be interacting with the webcam. In device manager, it appears that my webcam is using a default Microsoft driver, which is fine. However, the microphone seems not to be recognized at all, and for microphone input, it seems to be using the microphone jack, so when I'm on Skype, the other person can barely hear me. Anybody else having similar issues?

 

While this is true, Acronis also has a nice cloning ability that can be very helpful. I've used it to rescue data from folks' failing hard drives or for cloning to new drives far more than I've used it for backup.

 

I cant get anything to install. the UPEK driver works but the lenovo FP software wont work with it. No ultranav no power managment thats all i really care about. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
EDIT:
Ok i got the UPEK fingerprint software to work.

Now my next priority is the ultranav software.

 

I'm running Windows 7 x64 on a spare 40GB 5400RPM drive (pulled from my PS3) in my x200 Tablet right now. It generally works very well, and fast, and most of the drivers are not a problem.

I was able to get Power Manager installed just fine, and I was able to set charge thresholds, I haven't yet tied Access Connections/Presentation director.

I got the driver for the Active Protection system from Lenovo's Windows 7 Support Page.

Drivers for the TrackPoint, Gigabit ethernet, and a few other devices were automatically pulled by Windows update.

I had to use the Vista drivers to install my regular and WWAN modems.

The special buttons (FN+arrows for media, FN+Home/End for brightness, FN+F4 for suspend, etc.), worked out of the box (they also work fine in Ubuntu). However, I have not been a able to get an on screen display for these yet (however FN+F5 does launch radio control, FN+F2 does launch power control, and I get a notification for CAPS LOCK).

Unfortunatley, I still do not have the blue button or the tablet specific buttons (the ones on the bezel) working yet. I installed the tablet shortcut menu and I was able to set automatic rotation, wake on pen remove, etc, but I can't get the manual rotate, shortcut menu, button lock, or even the Ctrl+Alt+Delete buttons to work.

However, I am still missing a few devices in device manager. This includes the fingerPrint Sensor, PCI Serial Port (tablet buttons???), and the SM Bus Controller. Any help on these would be appreciated.

I haven't benchmarked it too thoroughly, but it seems to run very well.

• The tablet interface has been improved from Vista (TIP hides except when pen is detected, automatic script to text, editing gestures, etc.).
• The new dock is great (especially when running lots of applications on a small laptop screen).
• The Windows key is finally put to good use (Win+UP Arrow = maximize, Win+Right/Left Arrow = right/left half of monitor, Win+Down Arrow = minimize, Win+Space = peek, Win+Shift+Arrow moves a window to another monitor [very useful on my triple monitor desktop].
• Libraries are a great way to manage files in may locations.

Overall, I like it a lot, and may make it my primary on my x200 (it is already my primary on my Quad-Core desktop).

 

how did you get the fingerprint software to work. I have the upek software and the lenovo software also and can't seem to get it to work, even in compatibility mode.

 

I used this diver http://files.upek.com/SendPackage.asp?Key=K38EV1TON1Z1797488SF221TCGGTHCCH&ID_Files=290

This driver has finger print software on it i like better then lenovo's. You need to make sure you have uninstalled lenovo's FP software.

 

I got everything to work in my X61 tablet, except the on-screen display for brightness. If they fix that, then I will have a completely functional machine in Windows 7

 

Is it me, or Office 2007 doesn't activate on Windows 7? It was telling me servers are temporarily offline, try again in a few minutes And I did, several times in a span of like an hour

 

Do the other tablet buttons work? I haven't been able to get the manual rotate, Ctrl+Alt+Del, or button lock to work on my x200 Tablet.

 

Does Lenovo even plan to update drivers for older models? I want to get an X200 but if they're not going to update the drivers and have it work properly with Windows 7, I'll have to wait considering Vista is already being abandoned.

 

I would not worry about this. Lenovo will soon be selling their laptops with free upgrades to 7, if I had to guess. BTW: My laptop is older that yours and everything works under 7. I would venture that you will be safe. The beta is very good and I think RC's will follow soon.

 

has anyone gotten power manager to work properly with windows 7?

i'm on a T400 and ive disabled Power Manager from launching at boot, and when i try to run it after boot it will not start. i'm guessing this is an driver issue or something.

anyone else experience this as well?

 

Power Manager Update:

Until today I was not able to run power manager at all, but that was an older version. I downloaded version 2.41a of the power manager and unpacked it. Then, I right clicked the setup.exe and selected windows vista compatibility mode. Installed, rebooted, and it works. I did not install the driver just the utility and it works for me.

 

win7 x64 clean install from XP PRO on a T61 is working great, havn't run into a single problem yet. Hope that won't change when I try to get VAG-COM working. Hot keys and ultranav both working perfectly. No headphone audio port problems either.

 

For anyone having this issue, I found a solution. Go to Control Panel> Hardware and Sound> Sound, and then click on the Recording tab. Select the Default Microphone and open properties, go to the Levels tab, and increase the boost.

It is at 0 by default, which seems to be the problem.

 

So finally have everything up and running on x200.... except onscreen display... Seems when you install the HOTKEY util you loose the Gadgets


Thing that I have found out though is:-

Using a 3G modem in the Express Slot..... Can only really connect if left in slot during boot

System restore now works 100%

All Drivers EXCEPT for turbo memory work 100%

Lets hope someone from Lenovo reads this and finds a reason to fix the sbove..

BTW Boot time now around 35s on win 7... 55s on win 6

 

Had this as well, if you install the OLDER (Vista Graphics Driver) that will go away....

however what I found was that with either WIN 7 or Vista Graphics driver that the HOT Key util kills the ability to show gadgets on my x200

So no hot key means also the Big Blue Advantage key is a now go ..

 

Fixed..

well it seems that Goooogle is realy your friend...

I found out that the issues with hot keys the 3G modem and the gadgets... all are linked to UAC..

to get all the drivers and things to work if u disable UAC they all install ANd WORK (Compatability mode = Vista & Run as Admin).. but that means your Gadgets dont display...

a quick google later and ...
Tada... Gadgets work again here 2 links to get it working

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/01/22/disable-uac-in-windows-7-with-sidebar-and-gadgets-working-properly/

and

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/showthread.php?t=4246


Enjoy

 

Been trying to download 7 for my X200 but every time it finishes the download it tells me the file is corrupt...grr I guess I'll wait.

 

Seems to me there is a lot of GOOD copys on the Torannt Sites

 

I have a ThinkPad T61p.
What version of W7 are you running?
32 bit, or 64 bit?

I had installed W732bit without issue but decided to switch over to 64 bit.
I tried two sets of modded nVidia drivers from laptopvideo2go, as well as Lenovo stock 64bit Vista drivers and have had nothing but problems (they work but performance is terrible).

I used the most recent 185xx drivers, which performed horribly.
I switched over to 180.43 which I was using on my XP Pro partition and again, horrible (even though it ran beautifully in XP).
Lenovo drivers were no dice either.

Source games run @ less than 20fps.

NOTE: Sorry if this isn't the appropriate place for this. If it's any consolation, minus gaming, Windows 7 32 and 64 runs great on my T61p.

 

Hi guys. I thought I would chime in.
I installed Win7 on my Lenovo x60 Tablet.
Everything works great BUT for 2minor annoyances:
1. the "wifi light" on the screen bezel doesn't come on. I am unsure whether that just happened to break during the install or whether it is a driver issue.
2. Sleep. When I click sleep in the shutdown menu, use the power buttons ... nothing. the screen goes off, the HDD goes wild ... but it doesn't go to sleep and if I move the mouse I see the screen logging out and the login screen is up. It simply doesn't go to sleep. I can circumvent the problem by using Fn + F4 ... then it goes to sleep just fine.


FYI:
Almost every driver was installed automatically and I did not have any issues installing any drivers/software. I didn't install anything with compatability or UAC tweaking.
Trying to keep the lenovo crapware to a minimum I installed the following:
- Thinkpad Bluetooth w/ EDR Software
- Thinkpad modem (auto installed with Win7)
- Thinkpad Power Management driver (v1.52)
- Thinkpad Power Manager (v2.41a)
- Thinkpad Trackpoint driver (auto installed with Win7)
- Thinkvantage Active Protection (v1.62)
- Protector Suit2 2009 Preview from Upek (v5.9.1.4979)
- Lenovo's Multitouch driver (I believe Win7 then correctly identified the Penabled Wacom pen)

BTW the new fingerprint software is absolutely AWESOME compared to the crappy Thinkpad Fingerprint software. Saving passwords and auto-completion of forms ... it's great. The only annoyances are: I can't seem to find the setting for the Bios fingerprint scan to also pass on the login for Windows and (since the Bios-to-Windows login doesn't work) I noticed that the fingerprint login option takes about 3-5 seconds to load (after the login screen comes up).

 

To those who made work the Hotkey (OnScreen Display) driver which one did you installed, I installed the latest from Lenovo and this pops up (with UAC disabled):

 

Are you running it in Vista compatibility mode? I didn't disable UAC to install it on my T61p and it works just as it did in Vista.

 

Yes I did check to run under Vista compatibility but the same error appears.

 

Did you uninstall the driver and remove the registry entries from the failed attempt before hand. It seems that uninstallers are not very efficient for Vista apps on W7. Otherwise, there may be a slight difference in our hardware that would explain it.

 

Hi guys, loving win7 x64 so far on my T61.

Has anyone with the Intel X3100 gotten better drivers for win7 x64? The ones that come with Win7 + updates work swell but there is no OpenGL support it seems. I was hoping to get a bit of Quake3 done during lunch today

I have tried the latest Vista x64 from intel.com too, but no joy there.

 

Finally I installed an older driver version for the hotkey (2008), same error pop-up but after reboot volume onscreen is working, though brightness bar does not show when I change the dim.
It's kind of weird on XP the volume bar tops 25, on W7 it reaches 50.

 

Has anyone figured out what causes the wifi light on the screen bezel not to work?

And is there any way to see whether this is a Win7 driver issue (as this thread has led me to believe) or whether the light simply "burned out" or stopped working?

 

On X41 i have two problems

Not working Hotkey Tablet utility (version under Vista )
-compatibility mode not help

And Not working driver Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML (not work correctly)
after few restarts install automaticly Standard Vga Display

I have no screen rotation under windows 7

Maybe to old equipment

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Edit After six hours

I do it

1.Graphic card

I install Driver from Intel 915GM/GMS,910GML no from Lenovo website (driver under Xp)

2.Hotkey on panel all working without screen rotation.
Screen rotation is available but only when you rotate panel manualy

Hardware Hotkey to rotate panel not working

Keypatch
Patch c:\\program files\Thing Pad\Hot Keys Utility\ screenrotation.exe not working with any compatybility mode

Ufgh 6 hours

And small information Sund Max audio card working when install setup exe with comaptybility mode with windows Xp

 

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No answers?
Nobody trying W7?

 

My wifi light works, and I am running W7...

 

I am running W7 with no issues at all. My wifi light works as intended.

 

Yep mine too. It's on at this time.

 

i just got done installing W7 ultimate. Does anyone know how to get the scroller to work on my touchpad? It doesn't seem to be working. thanks in advance.

 

Did you installed the Vista driver for the Touchpad?

 

oops yea i got it working. thanks!

 

I think it works flawless and its pretty nice.. cool interface and stuff. but its a "beta". i have a endless grudges over betas so im back down to Vista

 

The only thing that doesn't work is the Fingerprint software (though I've heard there's a build that does work, I'm waiting for an official release). I did notice that if you upgrade from Vista (with the Fingerprint software installed) it continues to work on the upgraded install. I had it working on W7 up until I decided to do a clean install.

 

Another thing that does not work is Intel Turbo Memory.

 

Well that never really works to begin with.

 

Feel free to discuss its usefulness in this thread.

I just mentioned it as hardware which currently does not have the necessary drivers for Windows 7 beta.

 

hmm really. i never knew fingerprint didnt work. im pretty sure lenovo is working on windows 7 drivers.

 

Did you try these drivers? They were posted earlier in this thread, and have worked fine for me.

 

No, I have not, but thanks for mentioning them. I'll give them a shot.