{"id":1824,"date":"2009-02-22T04:41:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T12:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2009-02-22T04:41:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T12:41:13","slug":"windows-7-on-lenovo-thinkpad-x61-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/22\/windows-7-on-lenovo-thinkpad-x61-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 on Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s only been a few days since I’ve installed Windows 7 on my Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet, but so far it’s been GREAT<\/strong>! The version I had installed was the beta (build 7000).<\/p>\n

I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about Windows 7, and it’s not like I didn’t want to install Windows 7, but things had been working fine for now, and I saw no reason to chance destabilizing any of my critical machines. However, I had Vista SP1 running on my Thinkpad and generally it does okay, but once in awhile, after I haven’t rebooted the laptop for a few days, I get into a state where the laptop just becomes unresponsive and slow and has problems connecting to the wireless network.<\/p>\n

Jan Lyk had shown me Windows 7 running on his Dell mini laptop and I decided I’d give it a shot. It was pretty much an impulse decision. The same day after I saw Jan Lyk’s laptop, I grabbed the beta, and installed it that night. I decided to do an upgrade instead of fresh install since I didn’t want to bother reinstalling all the applications and backing up the data.<\/p>\n

The upgrade actually went pretty well. It did take longer than I expected. In fact, there were certain points in time during the upgrade which I thought it was stuck, especially when it was migrating files, settings, and programs<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The “fun” part came when it prompted me to log in. I swiped my finger and it logged me in.<\/p>\n

I started typing on the keyboard. No response. I started moving the mouse. No response. Thinking to myself, I’m !@#$%^. I could use the fingerprint scanner to login, but I needed some other way to actually install drivers if they’re missing. Suddenly I remembered I still had a tablet pen to try out. Amazing, the tablet pen WORKED! Typing using the tablet pen wasn’t that fun though, but I managed to get to the device manager and noticed that the keyboard and trackpoint devices had the little yellow alert sign. I opened both of them and told it to automatically update the driver and amazingly, it found the driver and I was able to use the keyboard. The trackpoint\/mouse actually needed a reboot before it started working.<\/p>\n

The only other issue was I also needed to update the GEM smartcard reader driver (which was also done automatically). Things were starting to look good.<\/p>\n

Moving on, it complained that my antivirus software was not turned on. I use AVG 8.0 and it was turned on from what I could tell. Someone on the AVG forums mentioned that if you disable resident shield and re-enabled it, Windows 7 would stop warning you about it. I tried that, but didn’t seem to work. I thought I’d try reinstalling, but in the end, decided to just switch back to eTrust, since AVG doesn’t officially support Windows 7 yet. This thing also warned me that Windows Defender was turned off, but I think that’s because it was set to delayed start, and the warning would disappear after awhile.<\/p>\n

I love the fact that the tablet feature and fingerprint scanner just worked out of the box. It definitely boots up a lot faster than Windows Vista and definitely more responsive. I haven’t had much time to tinker or play around with it much, but it looks like most of the Lenovo applications also work out of the box.<\/p>\n

The pinned programs on the task bar is like a merge of quick launch + task bar, which is pretty neat. Usually I have a vertical task bar, because when horizontally, the names of the tasks just take up too much space. Now that they’ve gotten rid of the name and only show an icon, I no longer really need to have a vertical task bar. However, I still dislike the fact that they group same tasks together. There’s probably a way to disable it, or make it more responsive so the moment I hover over the icon, the windows thumbnails would appear immediately instead of waiting a few seconds.<\/p>\n

Another cool thing I noticed is that they have a dim screen feature. Usually you have 2 options for your screen: On or Off. I usually set mine to turn off after 5 minutes of idleness, but now there’s an intermediate step where it dims it after 2 minutes of idleness and turns it off after 5 minutes.<\/p>\n

I’m going to enjoy playing with Windows 7 on my laptop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s only been a few days since I’ve installed Windows 7 on my Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet, but so far it’s been GREAT! The version I had installed was the beta (build 7000). I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about Windows 7, and it’s not like I didn’t want to install Windows 7, … <\/p>\n

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