Productivity Centert - Get help, be productive

 

Productivity Center guides you to a host of information and tools to help you set up, understand, maintain, and enhance your ThinkPad® notebook or ThinkCentre® desktop

What's New!

Supports selected secondary hard drives including:

  • Easier-to-use Away Manager with improved scheduling
  • Expanded systems support
  • Easier access to the Message Center application to automatically retrieve important notices any time you press the Blue Button

The Productivity Center portal organizes your top tasks, most frequently used applications and help and support tools with the press of a button:

  • Quick Links – One click gives you access to your top tasks such as starting a data backup, launching Lenovo PC Support or viewing critical system information. You can also customize Quick Links to suit your personal preferences.

  • Resource Center – Go directly to important tasks and other ThinkVantage Technologies such as Away Manager, Access Connections&t174;, System Migration Assistant&174;, Rescue and Recovery&174;, Client Security Solution and System Update. It also includes the Help Center section for system tutorials and other assistance. Resource Center can be customized and defined by IT administrators.

  • Message Center – Learn about system and support features you might not discover on your own. Message Center is your connection to Lenovo's award-winning support team. Messages can be custom-defined and delivered by IT adminstrators.

Away Manager

The Away Manager application allows you preselect and run routine tasks to maintain your system's performance:

  • Improved scheduling so you can set Away Manager to run when it is convenient for you, or start it immediately.
  • Away Manager settings can be restricted so only the Windows Administrator can change the configuration
  • Allows users or corporate IT to schedule tedious maintenance tasks to be completed at the user's convenience

The "blue button" has two functions:
The Productivity Center with a host of information and tools to help you set up, maintain your notebook or your desktop.
Second is access to ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery