Recording Devices window crashes Vista sys

If I right click systray sound icon and select Recording Devices the?window freezes. If you try to open anything or force quit you get a black screen and only option is to reset power. This is with the driver 6.0..272 on Vista Ultimate 32 bit with Fatality, 6600, P5W DH?Deluxe, 7950, 4Gb good ram and no OC. I also get the SCP with Vista and I never did with x64.

I had exactly the same problem and have managed to solve it, however it took me several sleepless nights.
The faulty driver my Card reader used was ver. 6.10.10.32 (according to info in Device manager). I found another driver on Lenovo's website (http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/8axw02ww.exe ; ver. 6.20.11.42 dated 4th July 2012). What I did was install the new driver. During the installation process I found it was not digitally signed, but I continued the installation process anyway. Then, in Device manager, I chose the Card controller (in IDE ATA/ATAPI section) and clicked on Update driver. I chose manual installation and indicated the place where my driver was saved (by default: C:\DRIVERS\WIN\MULTICARD). Windows won't let you use the driver straight away as it lacks digital signature and here is how to cope with that: http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/how-to-install-use-unsigned-drivers-in-windows-vista-7-x64.... . I followed "Solution number 2" and the "Finding out what files to sign" section. If you do it carefully, your drivers will be signed automatically and the whole procedure will finish at this point.
The only difference is that my Card reader is now listed under Storage controllers, which changes nothing, in fact. I have tried using different SD cards and have not encountered the BSOD anymore.
Hope you'll find that useful.
Cheers,
Robert

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.NET Framework (i don't install this at all)
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* keyboard customizer - not needed/i don't use it
* scroll lock indicator - not needed/i don't use it
* software installer - bloated mess/not needed (subscribe to the Lenovo RSS feed to be made aware of updates)
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* thinkvantage access connectkions - bloated mess/slows boot time/not needed (better and lighter weight alternitives * available if you need this functionality)
* ultra-nav wizard - not needed
* bluetooth - i install the microsoft bluetooth stack (which is smaller and simpler) and have noticably less lag with bluetooth devices resuming from a standby state (mouse in particular)
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::: the end :::
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I did a fresh re-install of windows7 32bit.
The previous install was running Creative Driver .04.0900 for an onboard Sound Blaster 24bit
chip(CA006-DAT), on a MSI/K8N/NEO4/SLI/Platinium mobo.
I open audio controls, then recording devices. Check disabled and disconnected devices.
"What you hear" appears and I am able to beat match Arkaos, R4, Gforce,...
The current install, same hardware, installed Creative Driver .04.0900 as well as Creative
Audio Control Panel and Creative software Autoupdate thru Windows Update.
I open audio controls, then recording devices. Disabled and disconnected devices were already
checked. "What you hear" not listed, only Microphone, CD Audio, & Line-In.
If I open properties for devices, Recording or Playback, there is now a Sound Blaster tab. Open SB
tab and select settings for Creative Audio Control Panel.
Hedphone Detec., Performance, Restore Defaults, Speakers, EAX Effects, CMSS-3D, SPDIF I/O tabs on
panel.
"What you hear" device shows up nowhere.

If u have a Dell Branded X-FI sound card and are using vista there is no "what u hear" go to the Dell XPS forum and read the FAQ at the top of the forum. "Stereo Mix/What you hear/waveout mix"

How to reset Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 password if you forgot or lost windows

How to reset Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 password if you forgot or lost windows password
It is truly very often for us to meet the password problem, sometimes we would forgot windows password or lost windows password, and could not login windows system and make a big trouble. At this time, you would hope to find a way to reset and recover the forgotten password.
Actually, a lot of methods are available to recover or reset the Windows password. But most of them are designed for PC experts, not common PC users, those solutions are too complicated to get it work for us. And in this article, I will show you a professional software tool which could help you to reset forgotten windows password easily.
Total Windows Password Reset is powerful password recovery software to reset Windows admin
passwords for you to login Windows OS without reinstalling the OS when you forgot windows password or lost windows password. It could remove windows password and set the password to blank. Just boot from the program CD/DVD or USB flash drive, choose the account you wish to reset and all will be done. It is not a method to crack or bypass windows password, just remove or delete windows password and set it to blank so you could login windows to set new password.
Below is the guide of how to reset windows password with this software, only 3 steps are needed to reset windows 7/Vista/XP password:
Step 1: Download the setup file of Total Windows Password Reset on the official website:
http://www.resetwindowspassword.net/downloads/totalwpr.exe
And install it on another PC. Then you could startup the password recovery software to prepare the bootable disc.
Step 2: Burn the windows password recovery bootable CD/DVD or USB disc with the software.
Now, you may select “Burn DVD/CD Disc” or “Use USB Disc”. If you select first method, you need to have a blank CDR/DVDR disk, a COMBO or DVDRW drive on the PC. If you select to use USB disc, you just need to pay attention: This USB devices would be formatted, so you must make sure to back up all the data before use it. And the maximum capacity of the USB devices cannot exceed 2G.
Tips: We recommend you to use the DVD/CD method to do the windows password reset, because some computers may not support USB start-up.
Below is step by step to show you how to burn the CD/DVD
1. Launch Total Windows Password Reset main window, Click “Burn DVD/CD Disc” button.
2. In BurnCC’s main window, click “Browse” button and in the open window, locate the file “TWPR.iso” on your desktop, select it and click on Open to get back to the main window. Then, click “Start” button.
3 Your DVD drive should open and insert a blank CD-R or DVD-R disc into the drive and close it. Click “OK” button. Your CD will be burned in a few minutes.
Tips: if there is already a CD/DVD disc in the drive before run the software, the CD drive will open automatically . Please close it again. The process will be continuing.
Below is step by step to show you how to burn the USB drive
1 Insert a USB drive into a USB slot on your computer and run Total Windows Password Reset, Click “Use USB Disc” button.
2 Click“Step1”button. Then, Right-click on the usb_format.exe and choose “Run as Administrator”.
3 In USB Disk Storage Format window, set the file system to FAT, Check the Quick Format box, check the Create DOS Bootable Disk, Browse to the DOS_files folder on your Desktop, click OK & then Start.
4. Click OK on the following window and then close the USB format tool. Your USB drive now is formatted.
5. Click “Step2” button and open the USB drive with your computer. Then, copy the files from the USB_files folder and paste them directly to the USB drives main directory. 2 of the files may become hidden and you will not see them on the USB drive. This is okay. Your USB drive is now complete.
Step 3: Boot your PC with the burned CD/DVD or USB disc to reset windows password.
You need to insert the Created CD/DVD or USB drive into the optional drive of the locked computer and reboot it.
Tips: It your computer still boots from hard drive Windows OS, it's necessary for you to change your COMS or BIOS settings to make it boot from CD/DVD or USB drive. If you don’t know how to set it, you may visit the official website: http://www.resetwindowspassword.net or contact the computer manufacture.
The computer boots from CD/DVD or USB drive, then
1 The program will ask for the Windows OS hard drive volume. Enter the ID number of the hard drive volume that Windows is installed.
2 The program has detected all the user names of Windows and asks which user name password is to be removed. Enter the ID number for the User Name.
3 The program asks to confirm weather to remove the password or not. Enter "y" (yes) to confirm your action and "n" (no) to deny the action and hit "Enter".
4 The program asks whether to continue to remove passwords for other accounts. Enter "y" to continue and "n" to finish. Eject your USB from your computer first and press any key to restart the computer from Windows. Now you can log in Windows with an empty password (with no password.), just click “Enter” when you login.
If you have any questions of the procedure and the settings, you could visit the website:http://www.resetwindowspassword.net or send email to [email protected].
Now you could see that to reset or recover the admin login password of windows OS: XP, Vista, Windows 7 or 2000 is not so difficult and you can do it with ease.

Very interest posting. Thank you for this detailed description and useful links.
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ThinkVantage Active Protection for Windows XP, Vista, and 7 missing from driver matrix

Recently, while checking the Software link: http://support.lenovo.com/ca/en/documents/ht037696
I noticed:
Active Protection System
Like an airbag's sensor, it can detect sudden changes in motion and temporarily stop the hard drive to help protect your valuable data from some crashes that could occur due to everyday notebook accidents.
Windows 8 (32-bit), 7 (32-bit), Vista (32-bit), XP, 2000
12 Mar 2014
v1.79.0.3
Windows 8 (64-bit), 7 (64-bit), Vista (64-bit)
09 Mar 2014
v1.79.0.3
If you try to follow the links to the ThinkVantage Active Protection System, you are presented with a document labeled: ThinkVantage Active Protection System for Windows 8 (32-bit) - Laptop or a document labeled: ThinkVantage Active Protection System for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) – Notebook
No reference to Windows XP, VISTA or Windows 7 in the current version of the documents, yet the text file pointed to by the download links states that this driver still supports all the older ThinkPads and is applicable to Windows 7 and VISTA. The text file does say that Windows XP support has been withdrawn with this release, and that XP users should use the previous version. It does not, however, provide a link to any document or mechanism where an XP user can obtain the previous driver.
So, is the document correct, or is the text file correct?
Where is the current driver for VISTA and Windows 7?
When I went to the support sites to see the supporting documents there, I discovered that the ThinkVantage Active Protection entries were gone from the R61, R500 and T500 driver matrices. The only reference I could find to the ThinkVantage Active Protection System was in the above mentioned SOFTWARE link.
ThinkPad R61 8932-CTO T8300 2.40 Ghz 3GB RAM Win XP
ThinkPad R500 2714-CTO P8600 2.40 Ghz 3GB RAM Win XP; Two ThinkPad R500's 2714-CTO T9600 2.80 Ghz 4GB RAM Win 7
ThinkPad T500 2241-DB9 T9600 2.80 Ghz 4GB RAM Win 7
ThinkCenter A63 5237-CTO 3GB Ram Win XP; A21m and a pair of 380XD's

Still no change to the driver matrices. ThinkVantage Active Protection is still missing. There has been a change in the web site, as follows:
Active Protection System
Like an airbag's sensor, it can detect sudden changes in motion and temporarily stop the hard drive to help protect your valuable data from some crashes that could occur due to everyday notebook accidents.
Windows 8.1 (32-bit)
27 Jan 2015
v1.80.3.0
Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
27 Jan 2015
v1.80.3.0
Windows 8 (32-bit)
27 Jan 2015
v1.80.3.0
Windows 8 (64-bit)
27 Jan 2015
v1.80.3.0
Windows 7 (32-bit)
27 Jan 2015
v1.80.3.0
Windows 7 (64-bit)
27 Jan 2015
v1.80.3.0
Windows Vista (32-bit)
27 Jan 2015
v1.80.3.0
Windows Vista (64-bit)
27 Jan 2015
v1.80.3.0
So now there are numerous separate entries, but none of them claim to support any 'legacy' machines. Most of the above entries point to the same driver (at present). The puzzling aspect to all this is that if you read the text documents that accompany most of the above driver packages, you will note that the text document claims that the driver supports quite a number of legacy machines. That information just never made it to the web page.
So do I manually update a driver because the text document says it is applicable to my legacy R500, or 'believe' the web page which states that only some current models are supported, but not the R500, T500 or R61.
Very inconsistant and highly unprofessional.
ThinkPad R61 8932-CTO T8300 2.40 Ghz 3GB RAM Win XP
ThinkPad R500 2714-CTO P8600 2.40 Ghz 3GB RAM Win XP; Two ThinkPad R500's 2714-CTO T9600 2.80 Ghz 4GB RAM Win 7
ThinkPad T500 2241-DB9 T9600 2.80 Ghz 4GB RAM Win 7
ThinkCenter A63 5237-CTO 3GB Ram Win XP; A21m and a pair of 380XD's

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