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should I format my new Vaio TZ ? keevill 05-22-2008
Posted by keevill on May 22, 2008, 7:57 pm
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 I have just bought a Sony Vaio TZ series and I am considering removing
the pre-installed Vista and other huge slowing progs such as Office
2007 Norton Security Suite etc.
The machine seems a bit slow.
I would install WinXP and lighter version of office/ AVG antivirus
etc
If I do that then of course I will lose some of the Sony applications
such as the power management software which does seem to do the job.
Is this to be recommended ? Will I Lose some good software which I
may regret ?
Seems to me that Sony install loads of bloatware stuff which I really
don't want.

Posted by G.G.Willikers on May 22, 2008, 9:29 pm
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 keevill wrote:
> I have just bought a Sony Vaio TZ series and I am considering removing
> the pre-installed Vista and other huge slowing progs such as Office
> 2007 Norton Security Suite etc.
> The machine seems a bit slow.
> I would install WinXP and lighter version of office/ AVG antivirus
> etc
> If I do that then of course I will lose some of the Sony applications
> such as the power management software which does seem to do the job.
> Is this to be recommended ? Will I Lose some good software which I
> may regret ?
> Seems to me that Sony install loads of bloatware stuff which I really
> don't want.

Driver support would be your biggest hang up. Laptops can be especially
hard to find drivers for.

My experience with new Vista installations from Sony, Toshiba, and IBM,
is that once all the adware, demo garbage is removed, you will see a
huge performance boost.

Check out this little tool:

http://pcdecrapifier.com/

Get rid of the Office 2007 trial, Norton Security, and the other obvious
bloatware, and check out some tweak sites, such as:

http://tweakhound.com/vista/tweakguide/index.htm
http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

AVG is a good plan, and you really can't go wrong with Open Office.

As always make sure you have a Restore Partition or CD for the Vista OS.
Sony probably will not give you any software support if you switch to XP.

Posted by BigJim on May 22, 2008, 9:56 pm
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DO NOT REMOVE VISTA unless you can get the drivers from SONY for XP.
If they are not on the Sony site you will not find them anywhere else.
Just remove the bloat ware on the machine that you don't want.

If the drivers, chipset, sound, video, wireless and wired Ethernet are on
the Sony site
you can have a go at xp.


Posted by -keevill- on May 23, 2008, 12:13 am
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> DO NOT REMOVE VISTA unless you can get the drivers from SONY for XP.
> If they are not on the Sony site you will not find them anywhere else.
> Just remove the bloat ware on the machine that you don't want.
>
> If the drivers, chipset, sound, video, wireless and wired Ethernet are on
> the Sony site
> you can have a go at xp.

what about my question about retaining some of the pre-installed
software such as the vaio power management which seems to work very
well - for example using the 'ultimate battery' setting then I can get
about 8 hours out my machine. Is this software downloadable from
anyware if I do decide to reformat to XP ??
Or perhaps there are manual settings in order to achieve the same
result ??

Posted by G.G.Willikers on May 23, 2008, 2:38 am
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-keevill- wrote:
>> DO NOT REMOVE VISTA unless you can get the drivers from SONY for XP.
>> If they are not on the Sony site you will not find them anywhere else.
>> Just remove the bloat ware on the machine that you don't want.
>>
>> If the drivers, chipset, sound, video, wireless and wired Ethernet are on
>> the Sony site
>> you can have a go at xp.
>
> what about my question about retaining some of the pre-installed
> software such as the vaio power management which seems to work very
> well - for example using the 'ultimate battery' setting then I can get
> about 8 hours out my machine. Is this software downloadable from
> anyware if I do decide to reformat to XP ??
> Or perhaps there are manual settings in order to achieve the same
> result ??

A very recent thread around here says you are most likely SOL.
instead of fishing for answers here, how about doing some legwork and
check out the sony website yourself.

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