Lenovo SL410 Clean Install

We all know (don't we) that a clean install helps the operation of a new notebook. I just got around to the little Lenovo SL410 I bought for my wife. It always disappointed me with it's piggish slowness and horrible touch pad sensitivity. Once again a fresh install of Windows did its magic. All the Levono crap was making the notebook under perform.

To Lenovo's credit, they did have a full range of Win7-64 drivers on their support site. One mysterious driver that presented three unknown entries of "base system device" stumped me for awhile. An SD card driver was already installed by Windows so I overlooked the card reader but that was the culprit. The remaining unknown, power management, I am hoping gets picked up by Windows update although, from what I read, this may be some type of "special" Lenovo design blah, blah for power management.

Well, installing Lenovo's power management driver worked but not the one on the product page. It is this one v1.65. I ended up with a couple Levono patches but I don't know which driver they belong to. I need to watch the add/remove programs when installing drivers to see what is happening.

This thing could take 8GB of memory and could sure use more than the two it comes with if you are like me and do lot's of different things quickly. Cleaning it up helped but it suffers quickly with multiple programs working. My P8400 Gateway beats the pants off this thing. I should test a few things to see if something is dragging it down.

The hard drive appears fine for a 5400 RPM:

Running Windows Experience Index was what I imagine passing kidney stones to be like.

But yes, installing fresh OS is the only way to go. Never think that some notebook brander has done you a favor with their own software. 

This thing is still laggy. It could be due to only 2GB of memory and I am accustomed to 4 or 8 and do many things as once.