The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    disabling some parts of Thinkvantage..how??

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by bstadulis, Feb 5, 2008.

  1. bstadulis

    bstadulis Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hey,

    I dont know if this has been asked already, but I couldn't find it when i searched...

    Thinkvantage takes up a crapload of memory, and I am using my T61 for personal use. I don't feel like I need most of what thinkvantage has to offer. However, I still wish to keep the system restore capability and the disk defrag thing.

    First question is....Is it necessary to keep all this thinkvantage stuff running on my laptop? When i open up my task manager, i see all these thinkvantage processes running that i dont feel i need.

    second question is....If this ^^ is not necessary, how do i disable some of these thinkvantage processes and just keep the two i mentioned above? If this is not possible, then how do i disable all of thinkvantage?

    Thanks in advance for the help!
     
    bstadulis, Feb 5, 2008
    #1
  2. vi3tscorpian

    vi3tscorpian Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    46
    Messages:
    330
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    the disk defrag. and system restore belong to windows. thinkvantage has the Rescue n Recovery.

    well, if you really don't find the thinkvantage tools useful, you can go ahead and delete them all in the "add/remove program" or you can go to "administrative tools/services" and disable their running modules.

    by deleting or disabling all of them might cause some of the laptop's functions unusable, i.e keyboard shortcuts....

    it is recommended that you keep the Thinkvantage System Update and Power Manager. it is the best Power Management tool ever!

    helpful links:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=2407893

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=151041

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=136285
     
    vi3tscorpian, Feb 6, 2008
    #2