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    win7 - blue button? and keypad mapping?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by rofflez, Dec 19, 2009.

  1. rofflez

    rofflez Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I just upgraded to windows 7 and everything went amazingly smoothly. I used the thinkvantage system update to install the lenovo software. However I don't have functionality for my blue button, and I don't know what software allows to map the functionality of the special keys. can anyone point me to the fixes for these?

    thanks!!

    edit: DOH! kept searching and found out both of those features have been discontinued. Sorry about this!!
     
    rofflez, Dec 19, 2009
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  2. Iron Eagle

    Iron Eagle Notebook Evangelist

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    You can get the ThinkVantage menu back by installing the Productivity Center. Although one does not exist for Windows 7, I installed the one for Vista and it works just fine.
     
    Iron Eagle, Dec 19, 2009
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  3. akadoublej

    akadoublej Notebook Evangelist

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    Good to know. I have been looking for the Windows 7 version of it but couldn't find it. The blue key mapped itself to ThinkVantage Toolbox (or something like that) when I installed it.

    It's far less useful than the Productivity Center.
     
    akadoublej, Dec 22, 2009
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  4. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The toolbox is the replacement for the productivity center. Lenovo stopped supporting it for Windows 7 but as you found out, current Vista version works fine.
     
    miner, Dec 22, 2009
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