Methinks they should’ve offered a clean-up utility. Good question! Apparently, Lenovo left it to device owners to root out these older items (except for the Fingerprint Software, which you must keep if you have an older fingerprint reader and want to keep using it). Why Do Older Lenovos Need Utility Clean-up? The old-fangled Solution Center and its various brethren are all now longer under developer support. ![]() Likewise, do NOT uninstall Lenovo Service Bridge: it remains necessary to report your Lenovo PC’s serial and model number info back to the Lenovo servers. Happily, the Lenovo Vantage UWP app supersedes all of them (except for the Fingerprint software, which must be at version 6.0 or higher for Windows 10 users). Note: all of the preceding items, except for the last one, can be safely uninstalled. + (DS105970) Lenovo System Interface Foundation In fact, if you check information pages at Lenovo (URLs below) for the following items, you’ll see what I mean: ![]() But it doesn’t automatically remove the older stuff when you do. ![]() Lenovo itself will happily let you download and install Vantage on any of its PCs. That’s why I assert that older Lenovos need utility clean-up. Indeed, now that Lenovo offers its Vantage UWP caretaker app, many older ThinkVantage tools are obsolete. Poking around on my two old Lenovo laptops today, I noticed several of their vendor-supplied utilities are passe.
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