T420: All my CPU(100%) is used by 2 Lenovo background programs, TPONSCR.exe and tpnumlkd.exe

[SlickTalent]

Hi.

My Lenovo T420 is only a half year old and and worked fine until now.

Although I'm not running any programs on my command, all the CPU is used(100%) for the 2 programs TPONSCR.exe

and tpnumlkd.exe. They are named NumLock on screen display for ThinkPad and on screen display drawer! Each  one of them

uses about 45% of CPU approx. Can somebody tell me what these programs are good for and what I have to do now to

reduce the CPU amout they are using?

Thanks in advance.

Nick

[someotherguy]

What OS?

Those programs are components of hotkeys "on screen display" so download and install the latest version here:

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-74261

[ColonelONeill]

They should be effectively zero CPU usage at all times.

Do try an uninstall and reinstall with the link posted above.