At 07:00 AM 4/25/2012, you wrote:
Message: 8
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:38:32 -0400
From: "Phil Smith III" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Thinkpad] T420s -- the denouement
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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So for grins, I ran the Norton tool again, and again it broke the
fingerprint reader. But this time it didn't break TVSU. However,
TVSU cheerfully told me there were no updates required. So I
uninstalled the fingerprint reader driver and let Windows rediscover
it, and that fixed it.
I still had a Norton icon (ccsvchst.exe) that wanted to show in the
status area (aka "tray"). Googling on that wound me up at
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/how-do-i-remove-a-dead-item-from-the-select-which/5fafdb14-45f4-46d5-a3dd-f1f769599a46?auth=1
. Curiously, rebooting instead of restarting Windows Explorer did
*not* work - I had to re-delete the registry keys and shoot Windows
Explorer as the article suggests. Weird. Anyway, that worked.
The next step was to recover that 15GB of recovery partition. Turns
out Partition Magic 8 doesn't work on Windows 7 (or at least, it
claims it won't; some folks claim it worked, others not so much, and
I was tired of fighting with stuff). Some more Googling found
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html , which
worked. The free version won't merge partitions, but it was willing
to delete the recovery partition and then let me extend the main
partition to fill the drive.
What an odyssey!
Posted in hopes it might save someone else some hassles.
.phsiii
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