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    Need input on setting up a new VAIO Y-Series

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by AHQ, May 28, 2010.

  1. AHQ

    AHQ Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey all,

    I bought a new VAIO Y-Series a couple of months ago. Unfortunately, I haven't had much of a chance to really use it yet. All I did was go through the initial setup and Office 2007 activation, and that's about it.

    I hope to spend some more time on it this coming week. I was planning to run PC Decrapifier before anything else. Are there any useless or annoying apps on the Y-Series that I should go ahead and uninstall?

    BTW I didn't enable the Norton Security Suite because I plan to uninstall it and install Avast's free anti-virus software or Microsoft Security Essentials instead. Unfortunately I do not have a fresh copy of Windows 7 to install on my Y-Series, so I'll have to work with the OS that came pre-installed on it.

    Any other tips or suggestions? Thanks in advance.

    PS - I posted my inquiry on the Y-Series Owners' Forum a while back, but it's been pretty dead so I hadn't received any responses there. Here's hoping that I can get some useful information via this thread.

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    TofuTurkey Married a Champagne Mango

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    You can try

    1. Clean installing: install the OS anew, then download and install the drivers from Sony. This thread will help, it also includes the links to Win7 ISOs: http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/467565-vaio-z-vpcz1-clean-install.html

    2. Build the recovery disks. Some have the option to remove bloatware.

    3. Compare the list of programs on your machine with those on Sony's support site, remove those not found on the latter.
     
    TofuTurkey, May 28, 2010
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