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From: "Will Honea" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers Undecoded message Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]OT(?): ThinkVantage? Access Connections Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:46:12 -0600 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

** Reply to message from "Carl Gehr" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:37:51 -0400 (EDT)


> This may be somewhat OT, but I just happened upon this on the
> IBM/Lenovo site:
>     "ThinkVantage? Access Connections"
> >http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/think/thinkvantagetech/accessconnections.html
>
> "Avoid support costs by allowing users to seamlessly switch between
> wired and wireless environments, managing security settings, printers,
> home page and other location-specific settings automatically."
>
> It also says:
> "Access Connections works with Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 and is
> conveniently installed on all new ThinkPad© notebooks."
>
> Anyone seen or tried this?  To those of you who understand such
> technical details:  Any chance of taking advantage of some of this to
> port something similar for OS/2?  It would surely respond to a number
> of the questions that have appeared here.

That got installed when I ran all the updates off the Lenovo site on the R30
the wife is using.  No more hassles with vendor specific control panels and
such - so simple that even the wife was able to use it after I showed her where
it was.  That saya a lot if a violinist and music teacher who, shall we say,
somewhat predates computers can use it!

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Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net>

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