Its here!

MY FZ290 CTO has arrived. I dont know how to act.

 

It is quiet. Now how much crap did they load into it?

 

The last guy who told me that his laptop had arrived did pelvic thrusts... contain yourself, Kimmy.

 

Congrats, I know how exciting it is to get a new laptop, or any piece of nice electronics for that matter. Can't wait to upgrade to a new one soon. Just don't damage the laptop while ripping apart the box frantically to get to it.

 

I know I had to hold myslef back while I tore upon the box..you should try it doing pelvic thrusts..not an easy task

 

The picture on the screen is like no other!

 

Granted my prior laptop was a Compaq v2000. It still works great and has a good picture. I have had it three years upgraded the ram about two months ago as it was needing it.

 

nice, take some pictures.

you should follow one of the threads and do a clean or semi-clean install. it'll work wonders.

 

I am really afraid roor that I will really f something up if I do it wrong. I did see those threads.

 

Ooooo It's here(or there!) Take pictureeeesss. I'm so bad, I am excited for you! I really am a geek. anyway, I was flipping though topics and almost missed this one as I was like "I wonder how that kimmy with the FZ290 is?"

pictures! Did you get the white keyboard? I think you did?

 

if thats the case, then remove and delete anything you dont need and remove them from start up (msconfig) and also, if you dont need norton, remove that as well (go to the norton site about removing, dont just delete it, you'll have problems). and see if thats sufficient enough for you. it should speed things up quite a bit

 

First things first! Make the DVD recovery set. It takes two DVD's. Do that before you do anything else. Once those are in your hands you can easily attempt a clean or semi-clean install. There is nothing you can do that can't be undone with the DVD recovery set. So give it a try. It does make a BIG difference.

I wrote the clean install instructions for the FZ series machine (link in my signature below), so if you have any questions or need some help just drop me a note.

Gary

 

Thanks Gary I shall do that

 

Ok I removed items prior to running recovery so that was my first mistake. Now what?

 

thats fine as long as you didnt remove the recovery partition itself

 

I didnt. I uninstalled Norton and some other worthless junk. I have to get the Vaio dvd per instructions, so I will get that item then this weekend I will do a clean install. It looks like I am gonna take awhile to complete the process so I wanna make sure I have the time and that I have no interruptions.

 

I will F10 at start up and create my dvds. I will let ya know how it goes. I am nervouse about doing it but the directions seem clear as mud..lol

 

You don't use the F10 trick to make the DVD's. It's done within Vista. Click Start | All Programs | VAIO recovery Center. And as roor said, as long as the recovery partition is in place it does not matter if you took Norton off the machine. The recovery DVD's are built from the recovery partition, NOT from the contents of the C: partition.

Gary

 

Yea I understood I dont do the clean install from f10. I will just make the dvd from here forward not resetting it to factory install the going forward. Thanks for the help I am sure I will be back for more.

 

Good luck!