First....
link for it's download is at the bottom of this page:
Link at bottom of this page
Cool little utility that lets you create what Lenovo calls a manifest file to customize the factory recovery.
Anyway, I was playing with this a found that it allowed me to do a custom recovery and deselect all the bundled apps that I didn't want as part of the recovery. ie; franklin covey planner, google toolbar, etc. It will even allow you to eliminate the ThinkVantage tools you don't want.
I also noticed where I could have it leave out specific drivers....
Either way, I kicked off a factory recovery, it was faster, and the system had only what I wanted on it from lenovo and was virgin compared to uninstalling these apps.... * if you've ever tried uninstalling the Franklin Covey software, you'd know.
I'm told it doesn't support all their preloads as of yet, but it worked fine on mine.
Sweet, and about time we had something like this.
I might add..... The help menu has everything you need to use it... I had to read it to figure it out, but after that it was cake. PM if you have any questions... I may play with it again this week.
link for it's download is at the bottom of this page:
Link at bottom of this page
Cool little utility that lets you create what Lenovo calls a manifest file to customize the factory recovery.
Anyway, I was playing with this a found that it allowed me to do a custom recovery and deselect all the bundled apps that I didn't want as part of the recovery. ie; franklin covey planner, google toolbar, etc. It will even allow you to eliminate the ThinkVantage tools you don't want.
I also noticed where I could have it leave out specific drivers....
Either way, I kicked off a factory recovery, it was faster, and the system had only what I wanted on it from lenovo and was virgin compared to uninstalling these apps.... * if you've ever tried uninstalling the Franklin Covey software, you'd know.
I'm told it doesn't support all their preloads as of yet, but it worked fine on mine.
Sweet, and about time we had something like this.
I might add..... The help menu has everything you need to use it... I had to read it to figure it out, but after that it was cake. PM if you have any questions... I may play with it again this week.
