Blue Thinkvantage button

Hi,
I had to re-install windows and now the Blue Thinkvantage button is not working.
What Lenovo softeware do i need to download to make this work again.
W700 - Win 7 x64
Thanks,
Kev

Hello Alphawave,
Now the ThinkVantage toolbox has been replaced by Lenovo Solution Center.
Kindly refer to the mentioned below post and this will resolve the issue.
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkVantage-Technologies/How-to-make-the-ThinkVantage-blue-button-work/...
Update to us about the status.
Best Regards,
Tanuj
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I had a virus attack and as a precaution I zero-ed my ENTIRE hard disk (using KillDisk). I have managed to re-install most things, including I now have an icon on the taskbar called "Launch Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox". However I would prefer it to be fired up by my pressing the (blue) ThinkVantage button at the top of my keyboard.
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Finding information with the ThinkVantage button
The blue ThinkVantage button can help you in many situations when your
computer is working normally, and even when it is not. Press the
ThinkVantage button to open the Productivity Center thinkvantage toolbox and get access to
informative illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions for getting started and
staying productive.
You can also use the ThinkVantage button to interrupt the startup sequence of
your computer and start the Rescue and Recovery
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in the windows environment it no longer opens productivity center it opens the toolbox if the toolbox is installed
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Best Regards,
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