Access connnections works some days, is dead other days (W520)

[eos]

Sometimes when I boot the W520, the access connections tray icong thing is greyed out, sometimes its brightly coloured and shows the current connection.

E.g. at home I ahve a wired connection called home, whith my home printer set as default.

At work I ahve a wired connection with a different printer (and a different IP range).

The days when its greyed out, if I lauch the access connections dialogue (which take an ridiculously long time - what is it doing?), there are no locations profiles, even though I have about 20.

On the days when its working, I see a whole load of location profiles, and It choses the right printer and shows the right location profile name in the tray icon.

Its about 50%/50%, but seems to be getting worse.

sleeping and waking dont affect it - it stays dead or alive.

Occasionally it crashes (as do all the lenovo apps)

Anyone else had this?

Any work arounds?

I have done a lenovo update, and its at version 5.85.

Simon.

[ColonelONeill]

I'd not use Access Connections if you don't need it.

.NET programs are a bit of a drag.

[eos]

How do I get rid of it?

I switch networks serveral times a day, and its handy when it works, but has the HUGE proglem that it cripples me to only being able to use one connection at a time (i.e. cant have one route to wireless, and one route wired - it always disables one or the other).

[ColonelONeill]

Windows has a simple network selection system, so if you're never in a place where two networks are in overlapping range, then Windows' system will work fine.

You can uninstall it in Programs and Features. It should be called ThinkVantage Access Connections.

[rc87]

I'm getting this too.

Sometimes it starts greyed out and sometimes the power manager (battery logo) does the same too.

It's just happening in the last 30 days or so, before I don't remember them doing this...

luckily this doesn't happen often.

[ColonelONeill]

Power Manager's taskbar icon is always greyed out for me for a few seconds at boot due to asynchroneous loading. It works normally after in all cases.

[rc87]

ColonelONeill, ironically I started my W520 to read this thread.

The error happened.

While loading windows, it loads desktop, icons and then show a Lenovo message in my language:

"Power Manager stopped working, should i try to find updates to solve this problem?" or something like this.

I have 3.65 PM version, so it says there are no updates.

Then I click OK and it appears the typical W7 error window (like this, but imagine "Thinkpad bla bla Power Manager stopped working, instead of catalyst):

Then I click "check online for a solution and close the program".

It close that window, a progress bar start moving like it's finding something, but the it closes and all ends here.

Power Manager stays grey and no numbers are displayed in the battery icon, only "- - -"

I must to say that when PM crashes at boot, a second before I have similar crash of "Two Finger Scroll from Google Code", telling me a german message.

They always crash together. When TwoFingerScrool crashes while loading, PM crashes too.

I'll try to post the screenshots next time.

EDIT: I wrote a post about PM 3.65 crash at boot here: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkVantage-Technologies/W520-PM-3-65-random-crash-at-boot/td-p/648401

[ZviWeiss]

I have the same problem -- but only with Access Connections on the W520... On a T-60, I never had this problem...  Any idea why this is so??