I, for one, and very fed up with just about every "moderator" and "leader" who chooses to reply here with uninformed data about how "hard" this would and how Lenovo is "working on it."
NOBODY "works" on stuff this long. We have gone through so many weeks since Win8 released that we would have seen Lenovo spend the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars and hundreds of man-hours trying to solve this. They obviously have not. I assume they have spent less than 5 man hours on this and have not even written an MRD around it.
I can list plenty of things that do not work properly in Win 8 on a machine that "fully supports" Win8.
- Bluetooth crashes off and on, hard to control, always looks on even if it is off.
- WWAN card needs "beta" drivers from beta page, does not work properly with Windows utilities to connect to AT&T - Constantly have to re-enter my user info because the flash in the wwan card is wrong.
- WLAN intermittently crashes. You must disable/re-enable wifi adapter to have it scan for SSIDs and connect.
- Power management is a joke. Computer runs hot off and on, cpu throttling is intermittently broken
- Audio driver comes with a service that will eat 80% CPU all the time until you disable it.
- Multitouch is reduced to 2 point touch support though my machine supports more in Win7.
- And who knows what-all else that I have worked around and then forgot about.
And none of this matters. Lenovo sold computers and said they would work with Windows 8. This issue with the Thinkvantage applications was identified about 1 day after Win8 released. There has been NO COMMENT from Lenovo AT ALL to even reassure us that they will fix this.
As someone above said, we are an edge case so they must not care. I take this experience as a learning experience about Lenovo.
I wonder if anyone will EVER actually pick up this thread and reply with some official statement.