Active Protection System - Where has my taskbar notification icon gone?

I have T500, and at some stage in the last few weeks I seem to have lost the taskbar notification icon for the Active Protection System. The service is running, and I have re-installed it from a fresh download, but it is still missing!
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Peter

Try again.
I have a T400 (6474) that I've upgraded to the 'free' copy of Win7.
After downloading SU 4.0, and updating the drivers, guess what - no Thinkvantage Folder on the start menu or icon in the task bar (hidden or not), so your suggestion won't work.  Even if you do a clean install and then run SU do update the drivers, the same thing.  I thought it was the machine, so I tried this on my M55 and T61, no change. It's like Lenovo has coded the packages to look for the old Start Menu location for Win Vista, and not the new location in Win7.
I also have this problem with the Fingerprint software not appearing in a folder - having to plug through folders to find an executable is very poor design.
I certainly hope this gets fixed.
Presently with an X201 and a T500/T410 combo
I've owned everything from a 701c up to present which equal a ton of ThinkPads

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