{"id":2666,"date":"2013-01-30T21:19:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T05:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2013-01-30T21:19:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T05:19:51","slug":"thinkvantage-configuration-update-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2013\/thinkvantage-configuration-update-stalls\/","title":{"rendered":"ThinkVantage Configuration Update Stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had set out to do an overdue update to the ThinkVantage software on my IBM <a class=\"amazon\" title=\"Reminds me of my R51e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000979258\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B000979258&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=markroth-ac-20\">ThinkPad<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=markroth-ac-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000979258\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> R51e.<\/p>\n<p>All went well until I tried to install the <em>ThinkPad Configuration Update<\/em>. Overall progress went to 99%, then backtracked to 98%, then eased back up to 99% again. Back and forth, back and forth.<\/p>\n<p>I tried this installation repeatedly in the course of several days. I tried it as a directly downloaded-and-installed process. I tried it as a deferred update installation. Always the same results.<\/p>\n<p>I searched Google. I searched Lenovo&#8217;s forums. I found no help. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So a week ago this evening, I finally posted a request for help from the Lenovo Community: <a href='http:\/\/forums.lenovo.com\/t5\/R-and-L-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops\/ThinkPad-Configuration-Update-Stalls-on-R51e\/td-p\/1003611'>ThinkPad Configuration Update Stalls on R51e<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No. Deal.<\/p>\n<p>Then late last night (or was it early this morning?), God (I am persuaded) brought a thought to my mind: <strong>Maybe your anti-virus, anti-spam, firewall Zone Alarm is blocking ThinkVantage<\/strong> in that final stage.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I uninstalled <a class=\"amazon\" title=\"I use the free version; this links to Zone Alarm Pro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00009APND\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00009APND&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=markroth-ac-20\">Zone Alarm<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=markroth-ac-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00009APND\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>. That&#8217;s right. I didn&#8217;t just turn it off, I took it all the way off my computer. (I&#8217;d decided to do a fresh install of it anyway.) Then I initiated the process of doing that troublesome ThinkVantage update. And this time it worked! <b>Praise the Lord!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Since then I did a ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery Backup. On Friday I&#8217;d like to do a disk image using <a class=\"amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0095C25Y8\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0095C25Y8&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=markroth-ac-20\">True Image<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=markroth-ac-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0095C25Y8\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God (I am persuaded) brought a thought to my mind: Maybe your anti-virus, anti-spam, firewall Zone Alarm is blocking ThinkVantage in that final stage.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[987,849,909],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-computers","tag-software","tag-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-H0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}