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    Anyone do an in-place upgrade from Win 7 to 8 to 8.1 on T61/X61T? Any Issues?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by crashnburn, Jul 3, 2015.

  1. crashnburn

    crashnburn Notebook Consultant

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    Anyone do an in-place upgrade from Win 7 to 8 to 8.1 on T61/X61T? Any Issues?

    Yeah I know people are gonna recommend a clean install but I am going in those 2 steps so that I don't have to reinstall reconfigure a lot of things.

    I have so far using the Win 8 upgrade compatibility app scanned out most issues it shows except one "Lenovo Auto Scroll" -
    http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=115151
    I had some issues eliminating it but I think I might have found the source of what installed it 'The System Interface Drivers" had the OSD and this thing in built (if I remember reading the text file correctly).

    Anyone who went for an in-place upgrade please point out/ share your experience/ good.. bad.. any issues.. ? Do let me know.

    Thanks. :)
     
    crashnburn, Jul 3, 2015
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  2. baii

    baii Sone

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    Well, you may lost power manager and some hot-key on 8.1. Those need some work around. Upgrade should not have much problem, you can always image the disk beforehand.

    Sent from my 306SH
     
    baii, Jul 3, 2015
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