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Summary of Changes for Presentation Director package for Windows 2000/XP - ThinkPad

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Version 2.57

  • Important: The following systems are supported by Presentation Director version 3.02 or later.
    • ThinkPad R60, R60e
    • ThinkPad T60, T60p
    • ThinkPad X60, X60s, X60 Tablet
    • ThinkPad Z61e, Z61m, Z61p, Z61t
  • (New) Change to show "Presenter Mode" in Fn+F7 On-Screen menu as default.
  • (Fix) Move icons to XGA even if the screen resolution is not changed.
  • (Fix) Fail to capture the current settings ('Capture' button) when the notebook LCD resolution is smaller than the attached external monitor.

Version 2.56

  • (New) Add new option and "Presenter Mode" scheme to enable Microsoft PowerPoint presenter mode
    • At least one version of PowerPoint from Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office XP or Microsoft Office 2007 should be installed.
    • As a default, "Presenter Mode" scheme in Fn-F7 On-Screen menu is disabled. You can enable it in Presentation Director main screen.

Version 2.55

  • (New) Support ThinkPad X60 Tablet
  • (Fix) Fail to switch displays while rotated with Tablet PC

Version 2.54

  • (Fix) Incorrect Wireless Projector scheme setting in some languages
  • (Fix) Sometimes fail to switch to external display on ThinkPad X60/X60s
    Note: It also requires ThinkPad X60/X60s BIOS 1.09 (7BET49WW) or later

Version 2.53

  • (New) Support ThinkPad Z61p
  • (New) Add four wide screen resolutions to the external monitor configuration (1280x768,1280x800,1680x1050,1920x1200)
    Note: Configurable resolutions depend on the combination of ThinkPad models and external displays, so some configurations may be unable.
  • (Fix) Fail to create an extended desktop with Intel video driver (ThinkPad X60)
  • (Fix) List a blank scheme in "Immediately apply this display scheme" list

Version 2.52

  • (New) Support ThinkPad R60
  • (New) Support ThinkPad R60e
  • (New) Support ThinkPad Z61t
  • (New) Support ThinkPad Z61m
  • (New) Support ThinkPad Z61e
  • (New) Show Lenovo Wireless Projector scheme when it is installed
  • (Fix) Debug string shown by NPDDIF.DLL
  • (Fix) The menus in ThinkVantage Productivity Center

Version 2.41b

  • (Fix) Overlapped button in Hebrew OS
  • (New) Rename IBMTPI.XML file to SWI.XML
  • (New) Support DVI monitor switching function with Intel video (only for DVI supported system)
  • (New) Support for Simplified Chinese/Traditional Chinese/Korean languages.
  • (New) Support ThinkPad T60
  • (New) Support ThinkPad T60p
  • (New) Support ThinkPad X60
  • (New) Support ThinkPad X60s

Version 2.40b

  • (New) Support for French/German/Italian/Spanish languages
  • (New) Support for Danish/Finnish/Dutch/Norwegian/Swedish languages

Version 2.40

  • (New) Support ThinkPad R51e
  • (New) Support ThinkPad Z60t
  • (New) Change the default folder from [Access IBM] to [ThinkVantage]
  • (New) Change the program icon and image
  • (New) Add a capability to show a menu to ThinkVantage Productivity Center

Version 2.34

  • (New) Support ThinkPad X41 Tablet

Version 2.33

  • (Fix) Show an error message during system standby or hibernation
  • (New) Support ThinkPad T43
  • (New) Support ThinkPad T43p
  • (New) Support ThinkPad R52
  • (New) Support ThinkPad X32
  • (New) Support ThinkPad X41

Version 2.32

Version 2.31

  • (Fix) Show PAL in summary even if NTSC is selected
  • (Fix) Stretch option of background image is not applied
  • (New) Set 16 bit color depth in preset scheme as same as preload default
  • (New) Support ThinkPad G41

Version 2.30

  • (New) Support VGA monitor and DVI monitor combination (for DVI supported models)
  • (New) Improve some graphic user interfaces
  • (New) Support ThinkPad R50e
  • (New) Support ThinkPad R51
  • (New) Support ThinkPad T42
  • (New) Support ThinkPad T42p

Version 2.22

  • (New) Support ThinkPad X40

Version 2.21

  • (New) Support ThinkPad T41p
  • (New) Support ThinkPad R50p
  • (Fix) Fail to switch PAL/NTSC option on TV setting
  • (Fix) Resize an application window to an inappropriate size
  • (Fix) Uncheck "My Normal Desktop" scheme option

Version 2.20

  • (New) Support ThinkPad T41
  • (New) Support ThinkPad R50
  • (New) DVI monitor switching function (only for DVI supported system)
  • (New) Presentation scheme import/export function
  • (New) ThinkLight on/off option, and desktop background image selection option
  • (New) Extended desktop window positioning option

Version 2.12

  • (Fix) Fail to switch display setting when CRT only resolution is over SXGA 75Hz with ThinkPad X30
  • (Fix) Fail to distinguish European national character capital or not
  • (Fix) Make incorrect preset schemes by overwrite installation
  • (New) Support ThinkPad G40

Version 2.11

  • (Fix) Fail to create new CRT+LCD both setting with ThinkPad X30

Version 2.10

  • (New) Support ThinkPad X31
  • (New) Support ThinkPad T40
  • (New) Support ThinkPad R40e
  • (New) Update user interface:
    • Add scheme Up/Down buttons, Apply button, Capture button and Help button
    • Home/Projector icon
    • [Fn+F7 Settings] dialog box
  • (New) Scheme rename function
  • (New) Scheme order change function
  • (New) "My Normal Desktop settings" scheme and Capture function Capturing is to capture current display setting with icon placement, power management and screen saver settings and save them as "My Normal Desktop" scheme
  • (New) Online help
  • (New) Hide desktop bitmap while Clean Desktop scheme has been applied.
  • (Fix) Application hang with ThinkPad Configuration utility v1.2x.

Version 2.02

  • (New) Support ThinkPad T23

Version 2.01

  • (New) Support ThinkPad R40
  • (New) A default folder is changed from ThinkPad, then ThinkPad Utilities, then to Access IBM
  • (New) Wizard header background bitmap is updated
  • (New) Initial Fn+F7 settings panel is removed
  • (New) A default preset presentation schemes value are changed to disable power management function
  • (Fix) Tasktray icon setting lost after overwrite installation
  • (Fix) It is failed to switch display settings on ThinkPad with SXGA+ LCD panel

Version 2.00a

  • (New) A default value is changed. When you apply a Presentation scheme for dual (LCD+CRT) with Presentation Director on ThinkPad Axx, the image on the LCD screen may not be shown at full size. This is the default.
  • (Fix) When you start Presentation Director in CRT only mode on ThinkPad Axx, LCD refresh rate setting does not work correctly.
  • (Fix) When you do overwrite installation, preset scheme of which you modified settings is lost.
Version 2.00
  • (New) Initial release to support Fn + F7 function.

Affected configurations

Any of the following ThinkPad systems:
  • ThinkPad A31, A31p
  • ThinkPad G40, G41
  • ThinkPad R32, R40, R40e(*1)
  • ThinkPad R50, R50e, R50p, R51, R51e, R52
  • ThinkPad R60, R60e
  • ThinkPad T23, T30, T40, T40p, T41, T41p, T42, T42p, T43, T43p
  • ThinkPad T60, T60p
  • ThinkPad X30, X31, X32
  • ThinkPad X40, X41, X41 Tablet
  • ThinkPad X60, X60s, X60 Tablet
  • ThinkPad Z60m, Z60t, Z61e, Z61m, Z61p, Z61t

Note: (*1) Only Microsoft Windows XP is supported.

Solution
Click here to download the latest Presentation Director package for Windows 2000/XP.
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Document id:  MIGR-51387
Last modified:  2007-05-24
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