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should I format my new Vaio TZ ? keevill 05-22-2008
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Posted by Barry Watzman on May 23, 2008, 11:52 am
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Honestly, I would not do that. If you want XP, I would get a physically
different hard drive. I just bought a 160GB hard drive last week for
$45 (www.geeks.com ... refurb Seagate but it's fine), and about 60 days
ago I got a 250GB drive from tiger direct for $79. Drives are cheap.


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.

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