Not an important puzzle.I can see you haven't read Clifford Stoll's book, The Cuckoo's Egg. I've let it download these and they haven't seemed to cause any problems, and may be necessary to get the custom battery threshold, as well as the battery gauge! Lenovo Settings may also prompt you to download a bunch of other hidden Lenovo updates that can't be found from anywhere else. When you install Lenovo Settings it will try to make you install a newly released System Interface Driver, part of the Hotkey Integration Features, but the new SI Driver will mess up your Fn hotkeys and Mute buttons if you are using an older Thinkpad! If you are using Windows 10 on an older Thinkpad (T500 generation and older) you need to install Hotkey Integration Features Driver 3.81 (including its included, older and working, System Interface Driver package) for your hotkeys to remain working, but this older version still seems to work with Lenovo Settings, at least on the R500 I tested Lenovo Settings with. There is a way to use the Microsoft account to install a Microsoft Store App, without linking the Microsoft account with your user. Unfortunately to get Settings you need a Microsoft account. In my case I additionally had to set the program to run in Windows 7 compatibility mode.Īfter the Redstone Upgrade I had to reapply the 'Fix' so keep this in mind for the future as MS will apply upgrades annually. Right-click the exe-file with the hard block and select Disable entry In the large pane on the right-hand side there should be an entry AppHelp - HARDBLOCK In the left-hand pane under System Database (32/64-bit) -> Applications, look for the corresponding application ( Lenovo Power Manager) (when you install Windows ADK, choose only Application Compatibility Toolki (ACT))įrom the start menu, run the Compatibility Administrator, either the 32-bit or the 64-bit version depending on your application

Install the Windows 10 Assessment and Deployment Kit ( adksetup for Windows 10) and download from Microsoft. The following workaround fixed it for me:

The blocking mechanism is a so-called hard block and is applied by the Program Compatibility Assistant.

Lenovo Power Manager doesn't work because the Setup file is blocked.

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