SimpleTap on new W520
Hi,
I just took delivery on a new W520. It came with SimpleTap preinstalled. I can start it by double tapping the touchpad. I can not get it to work by touching the tiles via the latop screen. Is there something wrong or is this how it is suppose to work with this model of laptop?
Thinkpad W530 2436 CTO, BIOS Version LENOVO G5ET95WW (2.55 ),Intel Core i7 3630QM, 2.4 GHZ,8MB, WIN 7 Pro 64 bit,1600x900 HD, Intel HD 4000, NVIDIA Quadro K2000M,16GB RAM, Samsung 250 GB SSD
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Thank you. So does that mean there is no advantage to have simpletap on the w520?
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New W520 BIOS 1.37 has been posted:
New W520 BIOS 1.37 has been posted:
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[Problem fixes]
- Fixed an issue where incorrect battery capacity might be shown in some battery
benchmark programs.
- Fixed an issue where the computer failed to resume normal operation from
hibernation state after running Setup Defaults by the F9 key in the ThinkPad
Setup menu.
- Fixed an issue where the Power-On NumLock function in ThinkPad Setup did not
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Although there is no mention of it above, BIOS 1.37 fixed the "50 second cold-boot start-up delay" issue with my Intel 510 SSD.
Hurrah!!!! and thank you Lenovo! (especially "someotherguy")
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Go to Solution.Perhaps the memory clock limit was to address a possible cause of the SSS issue. I've been running 1.37 with Crucial 4x8 gb SODIMMs w/o any issue. They are capable of running at 761MHz but are being clocked at 664.6 Mhz. Not a big deal for me.
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New W520 BIOS 1.37 has been posted:
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub...s/8buj15us.exe
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub...s/8buj15us.txt
[Problem fixes]
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benchmark programs.
- Fixed an issue where the computer failed to resume normal operation from
hibernation state after running Setup Defaults by the F9 key in the ThinkPad
Setup menu.
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work.
Although there is no mention of it above, BIOS 1.37 fixed the "50 second cold-boot start-up delay" issue with my Intel 510 SSD.
Hurrah!!!! and thank you Lenovo! (especially "someotherguy")
PS: However, my Kingston HyperX 1600 Mhz RAM now runs at 1333 Mhz (664.6Mhz x 2 - per HWiNFO64)
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New W520 cant adjust screen brightness!
Hello,
I am new to the forum and new to lenovo.
Just started setting up my brand new w520 and the Fn+Home/End keys dont work to control display brightness.
Any w520 owners having this problem as well?
edit note:- split from initial thread. change subject to reflect content.@johnt7225,
Appreciate if you could try running TVSU and Windows Update to ensure all the drivers are installed.
Also is X-Rite a default software which comes with the W520? (I am unable to confirm this as I do not have a W520 to test on) ...
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I just bought a new W520. I was testing the Norton Firewall and running port scans against the machine. I noticed some open ports so I did a recovery to factory condition. I ran the port scan again and see a number of ports (25, 80, 110, 8080 - if memory serves correct). I telnet to the ports and they respond but the is no visiable text so it is difficult to figure out what is running. I've tried using Tcpview and other tools to view the open ports via Windows 7, but I don't see those ports listening. I am wondering if there are some Lenovo tools/utilities that use these ports? I may just be paranoid
Thanks!I decided to break out the big guns. I ran a Nessus scan and NMAP againts my W520. The same ports weren't open when compared to the scan by Advanced Port Scan by RAdmin. These are the results of nmap which mirror the open ports Nessus found. Keep in mind, I had the firewall turned off since I am testing Bitdefender's Internet Security 2012. I used TCPViiew to link the process to these ports and found:
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49153 - wininit.exe
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I just got a new W520, and I am unable to see the boot-up screen when it is docked. There is a bitlocker login that I must deal with before Windows will load. Once windows loads, both monitors function normally. I've tried both monitors hooked through Digital, one digital and one analog, and switched which ones were analog and digital. None of these steps have worked.
cliffnic, welcome to the forum,
when the system isn't docked please start it, from a cold start, and immediately press F1 to enter BIOS. When in BIOS if you select the Config menu and then Display you should be able to select the "default boot display". Please set it to the output you wish to display the boot screen on, save your setting and exit BIOS.
After it's booted to windows shutdown and cold start with the system docked. Let us know what happens.
When the system isn't docked it will automatically default to the internal screen.
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Please help! Major problems (performance and lock-ups) with brand new W520 with Intel 520 SSD
My company primarily uses HP machines but I've been a long time IBM (now Lenovo) fan so I recently had IT purchase me a new Lenovo W520 (product ID 42763LU).
Once the machine arrived I had them do the following:
Remove the 500GB HDD and replace it with an Intel 520 series 240GB SSD
Remove the optical drive and install the 500GB hard drive that came with the machine in the optical bay (with the bay adapter of course)
Format both drives and put a preconfigured windows 7 64-bit image on the SSD
A general summary of the system is the following:
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NVIDIA Quadro 1000M
Intel 520 240GB SSD (primary HDD) [SSDSC2CW240A3]
Hitachi 500GB HDD (optical bay) [HTS727550A9E365]
Intel Advanced-N 6205 network adapter
TouchChip Fingerprint Scanner
The machine was a few days delayed getting to me due to "hard drive driver issues" (that's what I was told). When I received the machine I immediately noticed that it was much slower than I expected (I have a custom built i5 HTPC at home running windows 7 on a Crucial SATA III SSD that I was comparing it to) and I was experiencing frequent hangs (ranging from 30 seconds to multiple minutes), super long boot times, general “slowness” at times, and occasional lock-ups. Since our "baseline" laptop here at work is the "equivalent" HP workstation my IT guys have been less than helpful in helping me to solve this issue. Being reasonably computer savvy I decided to try to try to fix the issue myself. I performed the following “troubleshooting” steps:
1. One of the first issues (errors) I noticed in the event viewer was errors related to the optical drive. Clearly the image they installed on the machine was not from a machine with the same hardware configuration. So, I decided to just wipe the machine and perform a fresh install of windows 7 from the disks (well, USB). After spending multiple days installing windows, performing updates, making sure all the drivers were current, and installing only the critical software I need, I was disappointed to realize that although I fixed the optical drive errors the machine was still slow, was hanging, and locking up regularly.
2. Removed the cover on the machine and removed/reinstalled the drive to verify it was secure.Everything looked good.
3. Verified the latest firmware is installed on all my Intel hardware. Everything seemed up to date.
4. I performed a number of troubleshooting steps like booting the machine with/without the battery, with/without the HDD in the optical bay, installed/removed from the docking station, etc. and none of these things helped (also a note – occasionally when running on the battery I was hearing a strange “buzz” or “static” sound coming from the area around the SSD).
5. Next I did some internet research and learned quite a few things. First, it sounds like others have had similar problems with this machine and/or SSD combo and there were quite a few options suggested to “fix” these issues. The general consensus for troubleshooting steps were:
5.1. Download and install the latest Intel chipset drivers and AHCI controller drivers (overwriting whatever windows installs during updates).This didn’t fix anything.
5.2. Turn off PCI express link state power management in the power manager. This didn’t fix anything.
5.3. Disable superfetch, prefetch, indexing, defragmentation, page file, system restore, and hibernate. A few of these were already disabled by windows so in those cases I just verified they were disabled in the services and application editor. These things may have slightly increased performance but did not fix the major hang/lockup issues I was having.
5.4. I followed online steps to edit the registry to disable the PCI link power management by adding ports, adding the required variables, and setting them all to 0. This did seem to have fixed the hangs and/or lock-ups but the machine is still much slower than I would expect (boot times are still pretty slow and it does “stutter” when I’m doing more than one thing at a time. Also a note here – I have the Intel SSD toolbox installed and I noticed that it was giving me a warning for DIPM not being optimized. I made the mistake of clicking “Tune!” and then started having the hang/lock-up issues again. I went back into the registry and sure enough the PCI link power management variables for ports 0 and 1 were set back to 1. I set them back to 0 and the hangs have gone away. I will not be “tuning” the DIPM through the Intel SSD toolbox again…
6. I also fixed a couple of other minor errors I was seeing in the event viewer by disabling benign services and/or making slight timeout modifications (I researched each issue on the internet to verify they were benign before I implemented any changes). These fixes didn't seem to do anything other than make some of the errors/warnings go away. So, the list of errors/warnings has become much smaller but I’m still getting the following (maybe an issue, maybe not?):
Event ID 37 for every processor saying that they are in a reduced performance state for xx seconds since the last report
Event ID 10002 - WLAN Extensibility Module has stopped
Event ID 4001 - WLAN AutoConfig service has successfully stopped
Event ID 27 – Intel® 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection link is disconnected
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7. Since the machine still seemed slow I downloaded the program AS SSD and checked the performance of the SSD. When I compared my performance numbers to the benchmark numbers I found onlineI was very surprised to discover that I’m getting about 50% of the performance that I should (values below are read/write).
Seq: 262.11 / 188.32 (s/b 504.58 / 298.28) [MB/s]
4K: 15.83 / 44.92 (s/b 21.70 / 62.60) [MB/s]
4K-64Thrd: 165.23 / 154.46 (s/b 241.38 / 234.08) [MB/s]
Acc.time: 0.218 / 0.294 (s/b .0186 / 0.208) [ms]
Score: 207 / 208 (s/b 314 / 327)
Overall Score: 533 (s/b 797)
One more note - it seems like my cooling fan is running at a high speed almost all of the time. This is probably one of my power settings (I think I have it set for max performance) but it's even doing this when there is no load (i.e. I'm using IE and just vieweing webpages - like right now).
So, I apologize for such a long post but I’ve spent countless hours researching and troubleshooting this problem and haven’t been able to figure out what the heck is wrong here. Am I missing something simple or do you guys think I have a SSD and/or problem with the machine itself? To say that any and all help would be greatly appreciated would be a massive understatement – I’m on the verge of pulling my hair out and I really need this machine working as quickly as possible!
Please let me know if you have any suggestions and/or need additional information. Thanks in advance for your help!
-ErikLol gotcha about the drive as an option. I didn't go SSD with mine. Do you have the latest firmware on your drive? It is supposed to be v1.97. Just checking (ah and I see item 3 so guess so). Do you have the SSD drive toolbox software installed?
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Solid+State+Drives+and+Cach...)
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Hey all,
Newcomer to Lenovo here. Considering I'm waiting on a W520 (i7-2760QM, 4GB, 2000M, 500GB 7200RPM) and have indeed read back quite a bit on these forums, some of you are surely questioning "what's wrong with this guy?"
Simply put, Dell Precisions, HP EliteBooks, and the W520 are the only machines with the horsepower and features I seek with proper support standing behind them. I've heard questionable things about the longevity and build quality of EliteBooks, and have had a disastrous experience with Dell ProSupport/REC/two TAMs/Executive team, so Dell's off the table out of principle. That leaves our friend the W520.
An affiliate with a unit of the same spec has reported that he did originally experience the random shut-off issue and it was resolved by a motherboard swap, so that is pretty much the only reason I don't consider the design flawed beyond reasonable hope. Of course, nobody is posting to say theirs works 100%; generally only the people with issues tend to report status.
I don't have the machine yet; my order went in on the 2/10. My dock was marked as shipped this morning but the computer was one of those '4 weeks' things due to the 500GB 7200RPM HDD...we shall see what happens with it.
Anyway...that's my computer, and I'll definitely be reporting on things both positive and negative as I encounter them. Fingers crossed for a positive experience, but I know (or am told, anyway ) that Lenovo will be right there by me helping if I do happen to get one of the duds that seem to be out there.
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Hi, Kishy,
You are going to love your W520. No machine is perfect, but the W520 is a winner in my book. Yes, I do see room for improvement. Let's see what the next generation brings.
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I'm certainly looking forward to it. While I rarely buy anything 'current' when it comes to technology, it was time for a step forward (my outgoing computer is a Dell Inspiron 630m, and while electronically it is still completely sound, it's not a performer), and I specifically wanted to avoid a 'new design' which the rumoured W530 would be. The W520's issues, for units that are affected, are known so I know what to look for (nevermind the new Dell I just was forced into RMA'ing by a company that had no interest in addressing my technical concerns).
Logical reasoning suggests there are W520s, a huge number of them, that have absolutely no issues. It simply isn't possible that every W520 is faulty, otherwise they wouldn't allow people to buy them and become further burdens on the support infrastructure.
Anyone know where to get detailed order status? All I see is 'released to manufacturing' in my last email, and 'in process' on the order status page.
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New w520 has erratic download speeds
I bought a w520 last week. It's a lovely machine, but unfortunately it's frequently had terrible wireless download speeds straight out of the box. Wired, it was 11+ Mbps. Wireless, I've hit a high of 6+ and a low of .2. It is extremely common for me to get between .2 and .75 Mbps. Our two desktops get 6+. Our 8-year old laptop gets 6+ when sitting right next to the new laptop. I've been testing using bandwidthplace.com.
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Thanks!
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Go to Solution.Open Power Options (not Manager), go to your usual profile, hit Advanced, and set Wireless Power Saving to Maximum Performance on battery.
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Hopefully someone will be kind enough to help me out. I've already contacted Lenovo tech support twice, and been told 2 different things.
I ordered my Thinkpad W520 directly from Lenovo Canada. It's a great machine, except that the mousepad/touchpad started peeling off straight from the box. Tech support said I have to take it to someone local to get it fixed, even though it's obviously still under warranty. I phoned again today, and now they said I have to ship the whole thing back to them, and they'll give me a replacement computer. Why would I need to send it back?! Couldn't they just mail me a new touchpad...sticker? They could just send it in an envelope!My W520 came with one of those damage protection pieces of transparent plastic film over the touchpad. It is supposed to be removed. Otherwise, the pad insert... the bumpy /mottled rectangle, is a piece of plastic which is thick enough so it will not peel or curl or warp.
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I have a new ThinkPad W520 (4270). My ISP is RoadRunner from Time Warner Cable. The modem is Ubee U10C018. I am trying to make a direct wired connection using the USB option. I installed the drivers from the supplied disc, the message says they're installed, but the Device Manager says the USB Cable Modem has no installed drivers. I tried downloading the driver from the UbeeInteractive web site onto a flash drive using my old computer, which works fine with the aforementioned modem (and which I'm using now to post). I then reinstalled the driver from the flash drive onto the W520. Again, the message said the driver had been successfully installed, but the Device Manager says the modem has no installed driver (and "Update Driver" is greyed out). I spent two hours troubleshooting on the phone with TWC, who then said it wasn't their problem.
Help, anyone? Thanks for listening.
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I wanted to use the USB connection for a couple of reasons: 1) No Ethernet cable was supplied with the modem, and 2) I have the modem connected to a USB hub and want to be able to quickly switch between two different laptops using the one USB cable to the hub, which also has a printer and a mouse receiver attached. (I did try connecting the modem directly to the new laptop without the hub just in case there was a problem with the hub, but that didn't work, either. It seems clear that this is a driver issue, since everything works fine on the older laptop.)
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Have had this machine for a couple of weeks and very pleased with it.
But would like to check if this is a common issue.
The battery is quite loose, it is possible to move it both vertically and horizontally.Just got my W520. I've used a bunch of ThinkPads at work, but this is the first I've purchased myself. I'm extremely happy with it, but this loose battery issue really bothered me. The main reason I love the ThinkPads is that "solid" feeling, and this really breaks that whole experience. I think it's really weird that Lenovo would release something like this, but everything else about the system is so awesome, I decided it would be petty for me to raise a fuss.
I ended up just placing a few strips of electrical tape in the battery compartment, careful not to cover any stickers so it wouldn't damage it if I ever need to remove it (like if sending it in for service). I put four strips of tape on each side as shown in the image below. The strips on the right are full width and the ones on the left are slit in half lengwise just so it doesn't cover any seams in the body - I'm a little OCD. Only putting the tape of one side still caused a little bit of wiggle, so if you're going to do this, go the whole way! You may need to tweak the thickness slightly by putting more or less strips, but it should do the job.
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File transfer rate is very bad on my new W520. Help needed....
Hello,
I have a usb 2.0 hi speed flash drive which has transfer rates of 15Mb/s. But When I am trying to copy a movie (under 3 gb) from my W520 to the flash drive the speeds that I observe is 6Mb/s which is very slow. Initially, I though I have an issue with the flash drive but when I used my 3 year old dual core xps laptop to copy a file, I observed the speed of 15 Mb/s. If not high speed atleast I am expecting to see 15Mb/s with my W520. Really wierd!!!
BTW... I am running my W520 at "Maximum Performance" power profile. And I see my clock speed always at less than 1 ghz while copying the file but when i do other stuff i see my clock speed hitting 3.2 ghz....
Any thoughts on whats going on???
My system is Thinkpad w520 2710 with 8 gb of ram....
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RobustmHi robustm
From what I know, the problem lies with Windows 7 (throttling)
How about copying to USB drives? the speed should be around 30+ - 60MB, depending on the file type also.
1. You could also try updating Intel Chipset driver
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=816&DwnldID=20019&ProductFamily=Chipse...
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http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
3. You could go to Computer Management (compmgmt.msc), Device Manager, Disk drives, double-click your USB device, policies, set as Performance.
* Note: This may require you to Safety Remove the device, due to caching for performance.
Hope it helps
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Hey, everyone. My ThinkPad W520 should be arriving here tomorrow, and along with it, I ordered the ThinkPad Mini Dock Plus Series 3 - 170W. Currently, I have two monitors, one running at a resolution of 2048x1152, and the other one running at 1680x1050. I'm just now seeing that the limitation for the DVI ports is 1920x1080, so I'm guessing that won't work to hook these up.
My other route that I can go is by buying a DVI to DisplayPort cable, and then hooking them up that way. Lenovo's site claims that the dock has "Two DisplayPorts supporting 2560 x 1600 resolution," but would that mean I can hook up (these) two displays simultaneously? Inside the W520, is the NVIDIA Quadro 2000M Graphics with 2GB DDR3 Memory.
Thanks in advanced!
-Joewell the real limitation of the single link dvi port is actually the 2048x1152 @ 60 hz, but this resolution monitor is seldomly used so they just use WUXGA or FHD as the stated maximum, 30 inch or 27 inch high resolution LCD uses dual link dvi (which is not supported by the dock dvi).
You can hock up two displayport monitors up and still run the internal LCD, since the new W520 uses the optimus graphics technology.
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W520 on Series 3 Mini-Dock - Cooling Pad?
Does anyone have a good solution for a cooling pad which integrates well with the W520 attached to the Series 3 Mini-Dock (170Watt)? Did a search on cooling pads for this configuration and couldn't find a solution. I just received my new W520 and will be doing heavy duty video editing and transcoding professionally. I'm not sure I'll need the cooling pad but looking for solutions just in case I do. Thanks.
Hi, djones18
Normally, people would not use cooling pad with a more reliable business grade laptops, unless it is really necessary for your workload or any issue with the system.
If you are doing heavy duty video editing and transcoding, you can try push the internal fan to the maximum first with TPFanControl. Set Manual and Fan Speed to 64.
http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~schmitzr/donate.html
The Fan would be louder, but your machine would be way cooler. However, after your work, set back Fan Speed to BIOS. As running the highest fan speed all the way would make the fan worn out faster.
If it still very hot even with the highest fan speed, you could try to get a mid-range to high-end cooling pad, but I am unsure how effective it is.
Cheers
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I just purchased a W520, have installed additional RAM and an mSATA disk, and am loving it. I did not purchase the built-in calibrator because I will be using it with an external IPS monitor and already have a calibration instrument for that I've been using--the XRite i1. I use Argyll Color Management software for calibration and profiling of the external monitor on my old machine, and Argyll has installed perfectly on my new W520, The W520 found the appropriate drivers for the i1, and it recognizes it successfully.
Here's where I'm stuck. When I calibrate the external monitor, I use its on-screen display and the menu buttons on the monitor to set brightness, contrast, and color temperature (which I do by adjusting the levels of R, G, and B.) But I can't seem to locate any but the brightness controls for the W520 screen. So,
1. How do I adjust the screen contrast?
2. How do I adjust the levels of R, G, and B, or, if that's not possible, how do I adjust the color temperature to approximate 6500 degrees?
I'm sure there's a simple answer, but I searched the user guide and the forum and came up empty. Thanks for any help.A follow-on note about the X-Rite i1 and Argyll with the FHD screen and Optimus...
I found the Intel tool that will adjust R, G, and B channels separately (acutally, they'll adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation for each channel). Argyll was a little funky using this tool--it didn't update its adjustment recommendations--but I was able to adjust the black and white points and get the color temp pretty close to 6500.
Then I had Argyll create a profile, and the resulting deltaE was about 0.5 average and 1.5 max--an excellent, excellent score. Installed the profile and enabled color managed browsing in Firefox and visited a profile test page with very good results.
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I am downloading OS X Mavericks. Its logo appears in the launch Pad, however the status says "Waiting". And its there for 2 days. I don't know if the connection to the server can't be established or is it some other problem. Can anyone help.? Have an
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Re: Computer Restarts when turning HDTV off hooked up via HDMI HELP!!!
Ok, will do. Thanks
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How may I tell what version of bluetooth my ipad model has?
Hi, I have an iPad2 running on the latest version of iOS 8. I wish to know what version of Bluetooth I am running (I need v4) Thanks in anticipation.
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Listen on one port, service request on multiple servers
we are migrating off oc4j to Weblogic 10.3. One of the things that we really really liked about oc4j was the ability to distribute our applications across multiple JVMs, but refer to any of the apps with the same hostname and port; this meant that we
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Can we run java programms on Windows XP?
Hi experts.. I installed JDK on Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition..but i am unable to run java programmes. can i run java programmes on Windows XP?? if so how?? i will be very thankful..if any one solve this problem..