ThinkVantage System Update

for Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows 11

Version 5.08.02.25
Installation Readme

System Update downloads software, driver and BIOS updates

from a Lenovo server directly over the Internet without
requiring specific user knowledge of where the package is
located or if it is needed by the target system.

Other ways in which ThinkVantage Technologies help you keep

your system up to date and secure are:

- Provides a direct connection to Lenovo Service and Support

for ThinkPad and ThinkCentre drivers, software and BIOS
updates.
- Helps maximize your system performance and minimize security
New in 2023-08-08 release
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- Fix PSIRT issue LEN-135367

New in 2023-01-19 release

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- Fix do not create TempLocalPath issue TVSU-614

New in 2022-12-19 release

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- Fix PSIRT issue LEN-103545

New in 2022-11-04 release

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- Support pcdDescriptor version as attribute to Package element in XML

New in 2022-09-29 release

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- Support retry and continue options after UTS failure.
- Improved prevention of DLL injection attacks
- Improved handling of Cancel results for reboot type 5 updates
- Enable delete of temp files with paths > 255 characters
- Fixed some acessibility issues.
- Fixed some translation issues.

New in 2022-09-16 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2022-07-28 release

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- Fix some issues.
- Rccancel attribute added on Install element.
- hex2dec attribute added on Version element.
- Update CV to 3.1.25.

New in 2022-03-09 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2021-09-22 release

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- System Update supports Windows 11.
- Update CV to 3.1.22.

New in 2021-07-13 release

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- Update CV to 3.1.20
- Support firmware version detection method.
- Fix some issues.

New in 2021-04-25 release

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- Update CV to 3.1.19.
- Support Windows 10 Auto Proxy Configuration.
- Support to provide link to manually download TVSU when UTS fails.
- Support retrun codes for tvsukernel.exe.
- Support "SchedulerAbility=No" should disable default scheduled tasks.
- Support limit runtime of external detection routines.
- Fix some issues.

New in 2021-02-22 release

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- Update CV to 3.1.18.

New in 2021-02-10 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2020-09-08 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2020-07-20 release

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- Fix PSIRT issue LEN-42151
- Fix some issues.

New in 2020-06-19 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2020-03-31 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2020-03-09 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2020-02-11 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2020-01-08 release

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- Other Software License
- Fix some issues.

New in 2019-08-01 release

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- Enhancement to address security vulnerability CVE-2019-6175
- Fix some issues.

New in 2019-05-24 release

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- Enhancement to address security vulnerability CVE-2019-6163
- Fix some issues.

New in 2019-01-25 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2018-10-22 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2018-03-26 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2017-12-12 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2017-08-16 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2017-07-18 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2017-06-09 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2017-05-09 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2016-12-10 release

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- Change schedule task frequency from monthly to weekly.

New in 2016-09-13 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2016-07-07 release

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- improve schedule task reliability
- Fix some issues.

New in 2016-05-25 release

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- Fix some issues.
New in 2016-05-05 release
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- Fix some issues.

New in 2016-04-25 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2016-01-13 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2015-12-18 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2015-09-29 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2015-08-27 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2015-07-01 release

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- Support Windows 10

New in 2015-03-08 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2014-11-04 release

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- Support high DPI display.
- Remove SUP.

New in 2014-10-24 release

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- Fix some issues.

New in 2014-02-21 release

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- Add metrics collection feature.
- Add Lenovo offer feature.
- Fix some issues.

New in 2013-09-17 release

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- Change default setting of Schedule Updates to "Automatically download and install
Critical updates"

New in 2013-09-09 release

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- Support Windows 8.1

New in 2013-06-26 release

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- Fix some issues.
New in 2013-02-04 release
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- Fix Accessibility issue.
- Support 10-digit machine type model.

New in 2012-12-18 release

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- Support Windows 8
- New GUI style
- Other improvements

New in 2012-05-11 release

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- Support APS detection for Lenovo V/B/K/E Series

New in 2012-03-16 release

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- Add TVSU Scheduler on windows 7

New in 2012-02-03 release

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- Add Support to Lenovo V/B/K/E Series

New in 2011-07-25 release

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- Fixed the problem that TVSU displays incorrect error message when Lenovo server
is down.
- Fixed the problem that TVSU is not able to find, download and install the
following systems BIOS package:
E220s, E420s, E420, E520, L420, L421, L520, T420, T420i, T420s, T420si, T520,
T520i, W520, X1, X220, X220i, X220t, X220it.

New in 2011-02-18 release

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- Add Support for Windows 7 SP1

New in 2009-9-4 release

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- This version only supports Windows 7.
- TVSU scheduler is removed and Windows built-in Task Scheduler takes its place.

New in 2009-07-09 release

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- Add TVSU back into system for preload users.

New in 2009-06-12 release

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- Add the support to Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) with Service Pack 2

New in 2009-05-15 release

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- Maintenance update for UTS

New in 2008-10-20 release

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- In previous versions of System Update, When the user tried to get new
updates, sometimes the message similar to "An error occurred while
gathering user information." appeared. This problem is corrected in this
release.
- An unexpected exception error, that was installed on Vista 64-bit system
after the update is fixed.

New in 2008-8-22 release

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- System Update supports the ThinkVantage Gadget application.
- System Update supports Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP
Service Pack 3.
- System Update supports different clickable default billboards for the
USA, Australia, Japan, and other countries and regions around the world.
The billboard for registration, downloading, and installing is disabled.
- System Update will not automatically query the Lenovo Support Center
servers if System Update is launched by the scheduler and the scheduler
mode is set to "Notify."
- System Update supports a new database.xml format in Update Retriever 3.0.
- This release contains the following corrections:
- System Update no longer prompts users to input their name and
password when users searched for updates from share folder without
credentials.
- Corrected a potential security exposure that occurred when users
opened Internet Explorer by clicking the System Update billboard.
- Corrected a problem caused by a hard-coded System Type, which
disabled Active Update and Factory Recovery in the Rescue and
Recovery workspace.
- Corrected a problem that occured on some ThinkPad models, where
System Update incorrectly set the type to ThinkCentre. This
caused the ThinkCentre version of the Lenovo Welcome application
to be displayed instead of the ThinkPad version.

New in 2008-5-15 release

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- System Update supports new animated billboard for America, Australia
and other world-wide countries.

New in 2008-4-29 release

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- System Update is able to detect if a Service Pack is already installed
for Vista, and will not list Microsoft updates that were already installed
as part of that Service Pack.
- Automatically reorder packages in the installation list to reduce the
number of restarts.
- In previous versions of System Update, at the start of each update
search, if System Update updated itself, the user had to click
"Get Updates" again to search for additional updates. In this release,
when System Update finishes updating itself, it automatically continues
the search for other updates.
- System Update no longer creates a temporary folder under C:\ when it
updates itself.
- In the 2008-1-7 and 2008-3-13 releases, the System Update icon status
message incorrectly stated that updates were not available if System
Update was configured to get updates from a customer repository
instead of Lenovo Support Center and was launched in schedule mode. This
 problem is corrected in this release.

New in 2008-3-13 release

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- Resolves a System Update performance issue by resetting the scheduler
to retrieve updates from Lenovo servers when requests for updates are
not at their peak. If the scheduler is currently set to retrieve
updates at 11A.M. on the 1st day of each month, this update uses an
algorithm to set the scheduler on each computer to a different day and
time.
- A defect in the scheduler is fixed.
- Corrects the following problems that were introduced in the 2008-1-7
release:
- Corrects a registry setting that prevents the user from accessing
Active Update in the Rescue and Recovery(R) program, Client
Security Solution program, System Migration Assistant program, and
Access Connections program.
- Corrects a registry setting that prevents the factory recovery
feature from being displayed in the Rescue and Recovery workspace.

New in 2008-1-7 release

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- Scheduler supports policies that are deployed by Active Directory.
- A notification icon is displayed when System Update installs updates
that will reboot or power off the client machine, from scheduler mode.
- System Update displays download file size and required amount of
disk space for a package in the pick list.
- Active Update is available. Other ThinkVantage Technologies applications
can update themselves using System Update.
- The User Access Control prompt dialog in Windows Vista is eliminated to
improve the user experience.
- System Update supports manual installation when automatic installation
fails.

Supported systems
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ThinkVantage System Update is supported on the following systems:
- Lenovo 3000 C100, C200, N100, N200, V100, V200
- Lenovo 3000 J100, J105, J110, J115, J200, J200p, J205, S200, S200p,S205
- All ThinkPad
- All ThinkCentre
- All ThinkStation
- Lenovo V/B/K/E Series

ThinkVantage System Update supports additional systems as content is

created for them.

Software requirements
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The following operating systems are supported:

- Microsoft Windows 7
- Microsoft Windows 10
- Microsoft Windows 11

Downloading the package

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1. Click the file links to download the files from the Web page.
2. When prompted, select a drive and directory in which to save the
downloaded files.

Installing the package

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Under Windows 10 and Windows 11
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1. Open File Explorer.
2. Click "This PC" on the left panel.
3. Type SystemUpdate50802-2023-08-15.exe in the search field on the upper right
corner. This will locate the file you just downloaded.
4. Double-click the executable icon. You might see a dialog stating "Do you want to
allow this app to make changes to your PC?". If you see this dialog, click
Continue.
5. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation.

Under Windows 7
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1. Click Start, then click Start Search.
2. Type SystemUpdate50802-2023-08-15.exe in the search field, then click Search
Everywhere. This will locate the file you just downloaded.
3. Double-click the executable icon. You might see a dialog stating "Do you want to
allow the following program to make changes to this computer?". If you see this
dialog, click Continue.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation.

Silent installation of System Update

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System Update can be installed in an unattended (silent) mode,
which enables you to launch the installation using the default settings.
If you want to install System Update in an unattended mode,
follow the steps listed below:

1. Open a command prompt (DOS) session.

2. Using DOS commands go to the folder where you saved the file you
downloaded from the System Update download page.
3. Launch the silent installation by adding the following parameters
to the downloaded filename /verysilent. For example,

SystemUpdate50802-2023-08-15.exe /verysilent /norestart

Then, press Enter.

4. Wait for the installation to finish.
5. Close the command prompt session.

Considerations
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System Update is qualified and supported on Windows 7, Windows 10 and Windows 11.
System Update is not qualified and supported on Windows 8/8.1
If End User decides to install System Update on Windows 8/8.1 it may work without
issue and may be used as is but Lenovo makes no
representations about this and has not tested such installation and such
installation would not be supported. If having System Update
is important to End User Lenovo recommends changing to a Windows version where it
is qualified and supported.
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