X301 and pre-installed Lenovo Software

Hello to everybody.
I'm new in this community.
I've been a ThinkPad user since 1997 (600, R52, T60p) and now I've bought a X301 with Win 7 32 bit.
Comparing the Laptop with my previous T60p with Win XP, I have some doubts about the configuration and the preinstalled software (Think Vantage Tools) wich comes with it. Maybe someone here can help me.
My doubts are:
- why is not possible to get the productivity center and get it in association with the blue button?
- why is the Active Protection software pre-installed (and loaded at startup), when the HD is an SSD one?
- the GPS doesn't work (Only one time I've got one satellite in an open environment, where my phone gets full GPS coverage, otherweise normal is 0 satellite)
- the fingerprint recognition at startup is very very slow
- every Lenovo software, when launched, opens very slowly (minutes).
This is the situation I've found out of the box. I'm wondering whether the Laptop has left the factory with a wrong configuration (I mean, for Win 7 and SSD) and if I would be able to set everything in the right status through the use of System-Update.
Thank-you to everyone and, please, excuse my terrible English.
Occam
600, R52, T61p, X301

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