How to get rid of the VAIO Event Service Tooltips

Hey folks,

if you plug a monitor to your VAIO's HDMI port or an eGPU, you will have noticed the VAIO Event Service pop up:



If you click on the popup, you will be simply redirected to VAIO Control Center. This bloatware popup annoyed me for a long time, but since the event service is required for S-Buttons and FN-Shortcuts to work, I could not simply uninstall this service. That's why I have gone the extra mile and patched the respective DLL which handles the GUI so it doesn't show this useless balloon anymore. Just a few bytes needed some change. Tested it and the patched DLL works like a charm.

If you want to do the patch to your laptop, just download the attached file and follow these few steps:

• Stop Vaio Event Service. For that, open a command window (type cmd.exe in the start menu box). There type:
  net stop "Vaio Event Service"
• Copy over the VESCommonUI.dll in the attached file to C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\VAIO Event Service\ and replace the existing file. Create a backup of the original file if you like.
• Start Vaio Event Service by entering
  net start "Vaio Event Service"
  into the command window.
  That's all.

Hope you like it, feel free to ask. Feedback appreciated.

This should work with any VAIO that shows this popup and has Version 5.3.0.05310 (check in C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\VAIO Event Service\Version.txt). I tested it with my Z11.

 

Very useful. Thanks