Away Manager notification package. The Away Manager program enables you to run tasks in whisper mode, which automatically limits the resources used to run the selected maintenance tasks based upon the level of resources you designate for the Away Manager and the current level of available resources on the computer. The whisper mode feature maximizes the performance of the selected tasks while working to minimize the impact on the performance of other applications.

awaynotify.dll is loaded as dynamic link library that runs in the context of a process. It is installed with a couple of know programs including ThinkVantage Away Manager published by Lenovo, ThinkVantage Away Manager from Lenovo and ThinkVantage Away Manager by Lenovo.