Wow, I am in the home strecth of a clean install on my W500 Thinkpad and it sure has been a headache. I have never experienced this much of a pain. I did a 64bit Vista installation (not provided by Lenovo). The operating system install went as expected, but then it became fun. Getting the drivers collected was a pain in the ass. Once you download everything you think you are going to need, you need to run an installer to extract the files.
Would it be too much trouble for Lenovo to append the file names with the device they are for? I am sorry, but I just don't know what 7vrv17ww.exe is for! Would 7vrv17ww-IntelProLanAdapter.exe be too muc... [More]