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Software overview
The computer comes with a preinstalled operating system and several preinstalled applications.
Software provided with your Windows operating system
This section provides information about the software provided with your Windows operating system.
Software provided by Lenovo
The following software programs are provided by Lenovo to help you improve productivity and reduce the
cost associated with maintaining your computer. Software programs provided with your computer might
vary depending on your model type and preinstalled operating system.
Lenovo ThinkVantage Tools
The Lenovo ThinkVantage
®
Tools program guides you to a host of information sources and provides easy
access to various tools to help you work more easily and securely. For more information, see “Lenovo
ThinkVantage Tools” on page 75.
ThinkVantage Productivity Center
The ThinkVantage Productivity Center program guides you to a host of information sources and tools to
help you set up, understand, and maintain your computer, and enhance your computer performance. For
more information, see “ThinkVantage Productivity Center” on page 75.
Note: The ThinkVantage Productivity Center program is only available on computers preinstalled with
the Windows Vista operating system from Lenovo.
Lenovo Welcome
The Lenovo Welcome program introduces some innovative built-in features of Lenovo to you and guides you
through some important setup tasks to help you make the most of your computer.
Product Recovery
The Product Recovery program enables you to restore the contents of the hard disk drive to the factory
default settings.
ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery
The ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery
®
program is a one button recovery and restore solution that
includes a set of self-recovery tools to help you diagnose computer problems, get help, and recover from
system crashes, even if you cannot start the Windows operating system.
Power Manager
The Power Manager program provides convenient, exible, and complete power management for your
ThinkCentre
®
computer. By using the Power Manager program, you can adjust your power settings to
achieve the best balance between system performance and power saving.
Password Manager
The Password Manager program helps you automatically capture and ll in authentication information for
Windows applications and Web sites.
ThinkVantage System Update
The ThinkVantage System Update program helps you keep the software on your computer up-to-date by
downloading and installing software packages (ThinkVantage applications, device drivers, BIOS updates,
and other third party applications). Some examples of software that you should keep updated are programs
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