X120e owners who have fresh installed Windows 7, I need some help!

OK, so, like with any new laptop, notebook, netbook etc, I wiped my HDD and fresh clean installed Windows 7. I tracked down a valid Windows 7 Professional SP-1 ISO and made a installable USB drive and ran it with the W7 product key on the bottem of the X120e, everything went smooth!

However, I'm having some issues getting certain things to work right. For the most part, Windows 7 had drivers to get most things working by default. I had to snag the newest ATI drivers from ATI.com for the videocard and I had to get the Wifi drivers from Lenovo's webpage to get online. For the most part, everythings working BUT there are some "features" I'd like to get working I can't seem to figure out.

1. The on-screen fuction key stuff. For example, when I turn the brightness up and down, volume up and down etc there was an OSD that showed my levels in the factory W7 install. I downloaded the drivers from Lenovo.com that say they are FOR this but I'm getting nothing. Doesn't seem to be working. What am I missing here?

2. My bluetooth, it's non existent. The specs say I have bluetooth. Lenovo's homepage says I have bluetooth, the bluetooth driver package says I do not.

I found this on Lenovo's forums:

x120e Bluetooth non-existant? - Lenovo Community

We all have the same model X120e, and all seem to have the same issue. Pressing FN+F5 seems to do nothing and I do NOT see anything in my bios about bluetooth, I might be over looking it though.

3. I have an unknown device in my hardware devices menu. I have no idea what it is. I've installed about a half a dozen different driver packages randomly from Lenovo.com trying to see if they are what I need. I can't figure out what it is. My first thought was the missing bluetooth but I don't know. Thoughts anyone?


That's pretty much it.

 

For 1, you need to uninstall the hotkey integration feature package, install the Thinkpad PM driver (not the PM manager, as that causes audio stuttering), and then install the hotkey integration feature.

The Thinkpad PM driver, for some strange reason, is a dependency for the hotkeys and OSD features.

 

You could run System Update and let it download and install everything.

There's very little bloatware (most of it is in fact useful) on the stock install. Actually, the preload is more efficient than a stock install due to the Enhanced Experience 2.0 that Lenovo offers.

 

OK I'll bite... What exactly is EE 2.0? Is there a way to get it back if I want to compare it to one of my tweaked installs? I wiped my recovery partition.

That said, I think my X120e still boots quicker then my desktop and it's pretty up to date.

On a side note, System Update did find everything my laptop was missing and I have less bloat too then before. Still curious about the EE 2.0 though.

 

EE 2.0 is essentially a suite of driver and Windows optimizations that make it boot and shutdown faster. The downloaded drivers are installed haphazardly with no regard to load order and tend to slow things down.

Without the recovery partition, you're kinda hooped if you ever want to restore.

The newer ThinkPad BIOS/UEFI's are faster; my X100e used to boot in about 30 seconds (at least until I installed some weird software, it's now at 40-45). My T400 for a while took 30 seconds to boot too, but has since moved to a minute (installing randomware, messing with registry, files, etc.).

 

Ahhh so then it's really nothing a good W7 tweaking guide can't do for the most part.

OK I see! Thanks for the info!

 

I believe someone on SD did a comparison between two identical X120e laptops, one with EE 2.0 on a stock install and the other that came with no OS with Win7 Ultimate clean-installed, and the boot time was a tad bit faster on the Win7 Ultimate machine. I'd say the difference is pretty negligible--currently, I'm using a clean install of Win7 HP on my X120e.