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Lenovo's consumer division and ThinkPad division are two very different business lines with different roots and culture. ThinkPad came from the IBM PC acquisiti
by Stratoscope 7y ago
Lenovo's consumer division and ThinkPad division are two very different business lines with different roots and culture. ThinkPad came from the IBM PC acquisition and never had the spyware that the consumer machines had for a while. ThinkPad customers are mostly large (and small) corporations who would never put up with that.
You may still choose not to trust Lenovo, but it's worth noting the difference between ThinkPad and the consumer line.
- guug 7y agoAfter they replaced the menu key with the printscreen (!) key, I'm not so sure that this distinction exists anymore. They should have never played around with the keyboard.
- Stratoscope 7y agoOh, I agree completely! I didn't mean to imply that Lenovo has been a perfect steward of the ThinkPad brand, far from it. But I think there is still some distinction vs. IdeaPad, especially regarding the malware being discussed here. If you're running Windows, you can use AutoHotkey to turn PrtSc back into a Menu key, while keeping access to the screenshot function when you use the Windows key as a modifier. Just copy this snippet into a .ahk script that you run at startup: ; Remap the PrtSc key: ; PrtSc -> Menu (like an old ThinkPad keyboard) ; Windows+PrtSc -> Screenshot of all monitors ; Windows+Alt+PrtSc -> Screenshot of current window PrintScreen:: AppsKey #PrintScreen:: PrintScreen #!PrintScreen:: Send {Alt Down}{PrintScreen}{Alt Up} This doesn't fix all the keyboard changes, but at least it makes that one pretty easy to live with. https://www.autohotkey.com/ https://www.autohotkey.com/