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    Bloatware and the Vaio/FZ

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by whoamI?, Jun 11, 2007.

  1. whoamI?

    whoamI? Notebook Geek

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    I was all set to buy a Vaio FZ180 and then I started reading how difficult it is to remove all the bloatware ect. Doing this was pretty easy on my Dell. Is there lots of truth to this with Sonys?
     
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    JC17 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a vaio and I didn't have too much trouble removing it all but after I had removed everything I realised I couldn't use the volume controls on the front so I had to re-install some of the crap but only a small proportion.
     
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    tzurp Notebook Enthusiast

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    I did at first "semi clean install" but here you loose apps such as WinDVD and Easy media creator. So I did complete recovery and unistalled all the crapware manually. Now my SZ450 is clean and functional.
     
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