Taskbar open folder group icon hijacked by Lenovo Thinkvantage Tools


  1. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit
       #1

    Taskbar open folder group icon hijacked by Lenovo Thinkvantage Tools


    Hi all, as the screen shots indicate, once I open enough folders that windows decides to group them, the icon changes on the task bar to "Lenovo Thinkvantage Tools". How can I reset it to the default icon? It's pretty annoying.
    Thank you in advance.
    P.S. I am running a Lenovo x61 tablet with windows 7 enterprise service pack 1.
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  2. Posts : 12,120
    Win 7 Pro x64 / Win 10 Pro
       #2

    Welcome to the Seven Forums
    Have a look at this and see if it will help forum.thinkpads.com • Windows Explorer shown with ThinkVantage icon?
    Jerry
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  3. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    The last comment in that thread worked like a charm, but was a little unclear so I'll be explicit here:
    Open a folder,
    right click on the icon in the taskbar,
    right click AGAIN on "Lenovo Thinkvantage Tools" (should be "Windows Explorer"; this is what you're going to fix),
    select "properties"
    ensure that "target:" says only "%windir%\explorer.exe" (without the quotes).
    click "apply" or "ok"

    I apologize that you just basically googled something on my behalf, and I'm impressed you found it. I consider myself a pretty adept googler and I've been sporadically searching for a solution to this problem for over a year now! Nice work.
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  4. Posts : 12,120
    Win 7 Pro x64 / Win 10 Pro
       #4

    You're most Welcome
    I used "remove lenovo thinkvantage tools icon from taskbar" as my search term. No need to apologize that's what I do here is try to help. Wow a year it's go to hear it's fixed.
    Jerry
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  5. Posts : 5
    Windows 7
       #5

    Thanks! This weird problem happened on my Win7 X220, and your solution fixed it.
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  6. Posts : 12,120
    Win 7 Pro x64 / Win 10 Pro
       #6

    Glad we could help.
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