ThinkPad T440 and Windows XP

Hello,
does anybody know if the ThinkPad T440 still supports Windows XP (I don't think so)?
Kind regards
Alex
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T440 definitely does not support XP. As Microsoft will stop supporting XP within a couple months it did not make business sense to provide/test drivers for XP anymore. It is past time to start using a different OS.

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Power manager for Thinkpad t440 with windows 8.1 pro

hello,
I has just upgraded my Thinkpad t440 from windows 7 to Windows 8.1 pro. But i could not find Power Manager software to install in my laptop. I want this software to manage my battery to ensure that it stop charging when 80% capacity. I think that it is useful for my battery.
Someone could help me where i can get this software. I could not find in lenovo website.
Regards,
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Starting with Windows 8, the conventional Power Manager with charging thresholds is no longer officially offered.
Here's a third party tool to set what you need:
http://thinkutils.wordpress.com/download/
You still need to have the requisite power management drivers installed for it to function properly.
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Fingerprint support on Windows 10 - ThinkPad T440 and newer

On Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, ThinkPad T/W/X systems use fingerprint software. T440 and later models use Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro. This software was needed because those versions of Windows did not natively support fingerprint readers.
Starting with Windows 10, Microsoft has added full support for fingerprint readers into the operating system. You only need a driver. The fingerprint software is no longer needed, and should be uninstalled prior to upgrading to Windows 10. The purpose of this guide is to help you upgrade your Win7/Win8/Win8.1 system to Windows 10, so that you can successfully continue using your fingerprint reader.
Before upgrading to Windows 10, you need to make sure you know your Windows password. Whether you have fingerprints enrolled or not, the Windows 10 upgrade process will ask you for your Windows password, so you must know it.
Below are the steps I took to successfully upgrade a T450 system running Windows 7. My system has 2 fingers enrolled, and I also have preboot authentication where I use my fingerprint to enter the BIOS Power-On password.
Open Control Panel -> Programs -> Uninstall a Program. Scroll down to Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro and then click on "Uninstall/Change".
Click "Yes" at the prompt about "Are you sure...?"
When the uninstallation finishes, click on "Finish" to restart the computer as prompted.
After the reboot, log into Windows using your Windows password.
Upgrade to Windows 10
After the upgrade, open Device Manager (type Device Manager into the search bar)
Expand the category for “Biometric devices”
Double-click on the fingerprint device. On my system, it’s called “Synaptics FP Sensors (WBF) (PID=0017)
Click on the “Driver” tab
Click on the “Update Driver…” button
Choose the option for “Search automatically for updated driver software…”
You should see a message like “Windows has successfully updated your driver software”. Click on “Close”
Back on the “Driver” tab, confirm that the Driver Version is now 4.5.308.0 or later. This is the latest version of the driver as of July 31, 2015
Click on “Close”, and then close Device Manager.
The next step is to enroll fingerprints in Windows 10, to do this, we use the new Windows 10 feature called “Windows Hello”. To get to it, open Settings -> Accounts -> Sign-in options
To use Windows Hello, Microsoft requires that you first set a PIN. Under the PIN section, click on the Add button to create a PIN. Follow the on-screen prompts to create your PIN.
Under the Windows Hello section, find the fingerprint item and click on the “Set up” button. Follow the on-screen prompts to enroll your finger. Enroll more fingers if you want to.
Windows 7 only: You might see a problem where the “Set up” button is greyed out, and you can’t click on it. You might also see red text at the top of the Sign-in options windows that says “Some settings are managed by your organization”. As of July 31, 2015, this is a bug that we are working with Microsoft to solve. You can manually fix it yourself by modifying the registry. Download the attached .reg file, double-click it, and then click on “Yes” to confirm that you want to modify the registry. Reboot the PC and then go back to step 17.
Any questions or comments, please leave them here. I hope this was helpful. Thanks for reading!
NOTE ABOUT T430 AND EARLIER:
These systems (with Authentec fingerprint readers) use ThinkVantage Fingerprint Software which is still needed on Windows 10. It can be downloaded here: http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds036923

I too was fighting with my fingerprint reader after my upgrade from Windows 7 to 10. I have a Thinkpad W700 with an Authentec AES2810 reader. I think my computer would fall into the "Note about T430 and Earlier" section, but the ThinkVantage Fingerprint Software would not detect my Authentic reader. What worked for me was to uninstall all of the Lenovo software that I had from Windows 7 as the initial steps (1-5) indicate. In place of steps 6-14 (because Microsoft does not include the Authentec driver), install the Authentec WBF driver package from the link below on Dell's website. It does not have anything inside it that is branded just for Dell machines.... just the Authentec WBF compatible driver. http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=DFDJ9 After that, continue with steps 15-17 to set up Windows Hello to enable fingerprint based logins to Windows 10. My initial issues on all this was to get LastPass fingerprint scanning to work again. As best I can understand, it accesses the fingerprint reader through the Windows Biometric Framework. This driver allowed not only Windows to work with the fingerprint reader as Microsoft intended, but got LastPass working too.

Thinkpad X1 and Windows 8

Hi i wanted to sum up what stuff doesn't work on Windows 8 for the Thinkpad X1. I use a Windows 8 Pro Version (Dreamspark) so it's not the costumerpreview or such thing. I installed all of the beta drivers provided by Lenovo.
1) Synaptic Ultranav: The driver simply fails to install. Cant't use gestures on the trackpad. Trackpoint runs but only with the default windows behavior (the scrolling is diffrently; ergo way worse).
2) There seems to be no Dolby Home Theater Support yet.
3) The Intel graphic driver lost it's option to turn off the automatic dimming of the display.
4) SystemUpdate gives back an error saying that the catalogue for the Thinkpad X1 were not found.
5) The mute microphone key doens't function -> no light on / microphone is constantly activated
6) Besides Display brightness none of the FN combinations work e.g. managing WLan and Bluetooth adapters
Ok, i will try to install the fingerprint reader, cardreader and so on. If i find more problems i'll post them here
Cheers,
Karl

Hi, maybe I can help.
1. Use the windows 7 version- works perfectly
2. New win8 drivers have it here-
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&DocID=HT074689
3. Try re-installing them as there's been a few added very recently.
4. Are you using version 5? (this automatically picked up the Audio Drivers with Dolby).
5. Need these driver-
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&DocID=HT074689
6. Again, sounds like your missing heaps of drivers.
Go nuts on the link above and come back to us if your still having problems.

Comments on Thinkpad L420 and Windows 8.1

Hi
I installed Windows 8.1 build 9600 on a Thinkpad L420 to try it out.
Here are some of my comments.
1) ThinkVantage System Update does not install normally, you need to run the silent mode to install it.
Once it is installed it will install some of the drivers and Lenovo software on it.
You need to run it like this "SystemUpdate502-06-26-2013.exe /a /s /v"/qn"
Check this link: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Windows-8/Windows-8-1-Lenovo-system-update/td-p/1233289
Check the Thinkvantage software for Windows 8 here: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=migr-61432
2) For the intel drivers it is also good that you run the Intel autodetect tool on their website.
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect
The newer intel video driver and Wifi are working fine on Windows 8.1
3) Bluetooth was not working. I went the the Broadcom site and downloaded the driver from their site. After installing it started working. (SetupBtwDownloadSE.exe)
Issues:
1) I can not make the "Fingerprint software". The figerprint device got recognized by Windows 8.1 like "Touchstrip Finger Print Sensor" by "AuthenTec" on Widows Device Manager.
But when I try to run Lenovo's Fingerprint software installer it tells me that Windows is missing the "Windows biometric framework".
Any tip on how to make it work will be welcome.
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We know about the issue with ThinkVantage Fingerprint Software and will have new software ready by the time Windows 8.1 is formally available.
But, Windows 8.1 has fingerprint software built-in so you can enroll your finger in the User Settings screen.
The only benefit to ThinkVantage Fingerprint Software, is the preboot support for T/W/X systems. Your L420 doesn't support fingerprint at preboot, therefore you don't need ThinkVantage Fingerprint Software for L420 on Win8.1 - there is no purpose for it.
So just install the Fingerprint driver from Windows Update (I think you already did this) and use the native Win8.1 fingerprint enrollment tool in the User Settings screen.

Thinkpad e530c and windows aero

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i have a thinkpad e530c core i3 with 4GB ram and i've installed a fresh copy of windows 8.1 but i cannot see any of the aero or glassy features with it. is it a problem with my laptop or what?

I had previously constant problems with ATI X1400 driver on T60 under Windows 7, especially with external display.
Finally AMD/ATI released 10.2 catalyst driver
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Legacy/Pages/radeonaiw_vista32.aspx?type=2.4.1&product...
which I can confirm works stable and supports external LCD in decent way.
(if you found errors while installing, this is due to ATI/Microsoft stupid installation build - you have to remove first all Microsoft Visual C install kits).
Unfortunately we've lost Presentation Director with W7 (Lenovo why ????), now we left with Windows+P or Catalyst, OK, at least works fine now.

ThinkPad R61 and Windows 8.1 issues

Hi,
I have installed Windows 8.1 on my R61 and have a problem with sleep/hibernate. It never goes to this state, iI should stead LCD switch off but computer still runs. The only way to get back is switch off power and restart.
If I manually disable wireless driver before pressing sleep, then it goes to sleep state succesfully. Which driver i should use.
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Just for information:
solution is recent Lenovo update - needed to install System Update and it proposes patch for Windows 8.1.
After patching sleep and Hibernate is working.

System Update with T440s and Windows 8.1

I installed clean install windows 8.1 (iso directly from Microsoft) and I was thinking, that Lenovo System Update will install all necessary drivers and tools for me.
Sadly, this was not happening at all. Majority of drivers was missing. Even newest bios wasn't offered for install. However, on lenovo's website all drivers was available.
Is this only problem with my laptop or it is general behavior?
Thanks,
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We are way behind in posting Win8.1 drivers/software to TVSU. All I can say is to get the things you need from the website, or else wait another month or so. Sorry for this inconvenience.

Thinkpad T440 BIOS update without Windows Utility - problem

So I wanted to update my BIOS from 2.23 to 2.30 from here - http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds035967. First think's first - my T440 does not have any CD/DVD, so obviously I need a bootable USB to update my BIOS. Second, I'm using Ubuntu and no longer have (or want to have) the Windows installation.
In order to make a bootable USB with the BIOS iso file I tried 2 things:
1) Tried following this guide - httpawww.lenzg.net/archives/358-Updating-the-BIOS-on-my-ThinkPad-T440-without-Windows-or-a-DVD-Drive.html, everything seems to be have worked, except the fact that it does not boot when I try to boot trough the USB, and I bumped there.
2) Open a Windows on my second laptop and try to make a bootable USB from Windows (maybe it will help?). Tried both the standard Windows USB DVD Tool and got the error - "The selected file is not a valid ISO file. Please select a valid ISO file and try again." Fair enough, here I started to get suspisous that something is wrong. I tried and burned a bootable USB with PowerISO, but again as method 1) it does not boot.
Just to mention that in my BIOS I have the Secure Boot off and both the Legacy mode and UEFI, with Legacy first.
Any ideas how to proceed?

Sorry, I don't know about Linux much less then nothing.
But I'm sure there are the following tools for:
- disk/partition management, to make primary partition on the stick as active, to be bootable
- mount .iso image as a virtual CD to explore that one and get its content. Or, perhaps, there is .iso content viewer that supports CDFS.
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Issues with Thinkpad yoga on Windows 7 64-bit

I uninstalled the windows 8.1 that came with my Thinkpad Yoga to installe windows 7 64-bit because there was no support for Power Manager ( a tool that allows you to charge your battery only upto a certain percentage (eg 40%) which helps reduce battery aging when the notebook is mostly operated on AC power).
Doing that required me to fully clean the Hard-disk during the installation process.
I installed almost all of the drivers available on http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-yoga-series-laptops/thinkpad-...
for thinkpad yoga and windows 7 64 bit.
Happily, this provided me the Power manager, and I can use it just as I wanted.
However, all these has brought in additional issues which are listed below:
1. The touch pad right click doesn't work. Only two finger tap works as right click.
2. The touch pad gestures for zoom and scroll doesn't work at all.
3. The screen auto-rotate doesn't work.
4. The touch screen gesture for zoom doesn't work.
I did install the ultra-nav and screen-rotate drivers, but I get error messages regarding synaptics ... not working and also sensor driver not working during the windows startup.
Any help please?
Thank you.

Just when I was happy that major issues have been resolved by constant updating, I am now experiencing this frightening problem. Mostly during startup, and lately in the middle of working, the screen freezes, shows very damaged image (like TV noise), produces the most unpleasant sound through the speakers and nothing works. I need to restart and hope that it will be ok. Sometimes it requires 2 or 3 restarts, going to safe-mode and returning back to get the issue resolved.
This has happened three or 4 times within 24 hrs. I searched in the forum and for another model it was suggested that epresscache might be the cause. I disabled the service, but the problem reappeared even then.
Any help please:
This is what appears on the screen when the computer freezes and produces loud unpleasant noise sound.
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Thinkpad T440s cannot connect to displayport

Hi, I just installed arch on a Thinkpad T440s and I've managed to configure most things to my liking, but for some reason I cannot recognize displays plugged into the mini displayport. No matter what I have plugged in, the output of
$ xrandr -q
is always:
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1600 x 900, maximum 32767 x 32767
eDP1 connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 309mm x 174mm
1600x900 60.01*+
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32 56.25
640x480 59.94
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
This also doesn't show the VGA port at all, which confuses me. I have the latest version of the xf86-video-intel driver installed. I also tried forcing output to DP1 with:
$ xrandr --addmode DP1 1600x900
$ xrandr --output DP1 --mode 1600x900
but this failed with output
xrandr: Configure crtc 1 failed
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi proglodyte,
Sorry to hear the mini Displayport is still problematic. Requested info is below, though its vanilla defaults (i.e., no xorg.conf). Hope its helpful anyway.
cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
# vim:set ft=sh
# MODULES
# The following modules are loaded before any boot hooks are
# run. Advanced users may wish to specify all system modules
# in this array. For instance:
# MODULES="piix ide_disk reiserfs"
MODULES=""
# BINARIES
# This setting includes any additional binaries a given user may
# wish into the CPIO image. This is run last, so it may be used to
# override the actual binaries included by a given hook
# BINARIES are dependency parsed, so you may safely ignore libraries
BINARIES=""
# FILES
# This setting is similar to BINARIES above, however, files are added
# as-is and are not parsed in any way. This is useful for config files.
FILES=""
# HOOKS
# This is the most important setting in this file. The HOOKS control the
# modules and scripts added to the image, and what happens at boot time.
# Order is important, and it is recommended that you do not change the
# order in which HOOKS are added. Run 'mkinitcpio -H <hook name>' for
# help on a given hook.
# 'base' is _required_ unless you know precisely what you are doing.
# 'udev' is _required_ in order to automatically load modules
# 'filesystems' is _required_ unless you specify your fs modules in MODULES
# Examples:
## This setup specifies all modules in the MODULES setting above.
## No raid, lvm2, or encrypted root is needed.
# HOOKS="base"
## This setup will autodetect all modules for your system and should
## work as a sane default
# HOOKS="base udev autodetect block filesystems"
## This setup will generate a 'full' image which supports most systems.
## No autodetection is done.
# HOOKS="base udev block filesystems"
## This setup assembles a pata mdadm array with an encrypted root FS.
## Note: See 'mkinitcpio -H mdadm' for more information on raid devices.
# HOOKS="base udev block mdadm encrypt filesystems"
## This setup loads an lvm2 volume group on a usb device.
# HOOKS="base udev block lvm2 filesystems"
## NOTE: If you have /usr on a separate partition, you MUST include the
# usr, fsck and shutdown hooks.
HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck"
# COMPRESSION
# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, gzip compression
# is used. Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image.
#COMPRESSION="gzip"
#COMPRESSION="bzip2"
#COMPRESSION="lzma"
#COMPRESSION="xz"
#COMPRESSION="lzop"
#COMPRESSION="lz4"
# COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
# Additional options for the compressor
#COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=""
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/etc/X11/:
xinit xorg.conf.d
/etc/X11/xinit:
xinitrc xinitrc.d xserverrc
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d:
30-dbus
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d:
90-evdev-trackpoint.conf
pacman -Qs intel
local/intel-dri 10.2.6-1
Mesa drivers for Intel
local/intel-ucode 20140624-1
Microcode update files for Intel CPUs
local/libva-intel-driver 1.3.2-1
VA-API implementation for Intel G45 and HD Graphics family
local/xf86-video-intel 2.99.914-4 (xorg-drivers xorg)
X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers
Other things to consider are a faulty mini Displayport adaptor (best case) or mini Displayport itself (worst case) on your T440S.

System update makes Windows 7 on both T440s and E531 not starting up

I install windows 7 on both a Lenovo E531 and a Lenovo T440s and afterwards install system update. The first time system update ask me to restart, Windows wont start up again, It reach the Windows logo and then turn black where only the mouse shows. Does system update have problems or is it one of the drivers already installed which colide with system update?

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Thinkpad T440 trackpad and trackpoint trouble

Hi,
My trackpad and trackpoint have stopped working on my T440 running Windows 8.1.
When running Lenovo Solution center it says that a PS/2-compatiable mouse is inactivated and I can't see any of the pointing devices in the device manager.
When I try to install the appointed UltraNav driver I sometimes get an error which says the installation was unsuccessful. Sometimes the installation is successful but when I reboot the computer the devices still doesn't work and when I try to configure them through the control panel I get an error which says that the driver doesn't work.
I have also checked so that both devices are enabled in BIOS.
Thanks
Jakob

Try a bootable Linux live environment and see if fails similarly there. If so, it's probably a hardware fault.
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ThinkPad T440s + Nvidia - ThinkPad USB 3.0 compatibility

As ThinkPad T440s with discrete graphics doesn't support docking stations is it possible to connect external monitor, AC, mouse, keyboard and headphones through ThinkPad USB 3.0?

Hi,
Which USB 3.0 dock are you refering to?
If it is this one:
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/itemdetails/0A33970/460/EB6CE8241B8A47E18EBAF06F8726DA3E
Then the latest driver which supports Windows 8.1 can be found here:
http://www.displaylink.com/support/sla.php?fileid=100
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Thinkpad T440s Ethernet Adapter Automatically Disabled

I have a Thinkpad T440s 20AQ with a Intel I218-LM ethernet adapter. The OS is Windows 8.1 x64
Since approx. half year ago, the ethernet adapter started to disable itself automatically every 1-4 weeks. The occurance of this problem has no pattern and is unexpectable.
When it happens, I cannot reenable it under Network Connection window. Rebooting the system has ~50% chance to solve this problem. The reliable way to solve this problem is disable and reenable the adapter under Device Manager.

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