OK to Uninstall Vaio Messenger?

The last two days on the Z I've been getting a popup from Vaio Messenger with some errors. I'm not really sure what they are or how to get rid of them, but I find it irritating. Would it be recommended to get rid of Vaio Messenger, or will something else be messed up because of it?

A way to not get the error would be a nice fix as well.

 

I uninstalled it when I got my F13 and did not experience any problems. And when I did my clean install I did not install it at all and everything works great.

 

what does the vaio messenger do?is like a sort of yahoo?i never heard of vaio messenger my Z13 when i bought it didn't have such thing installed

 

I think its primary purpose is to remind you how much Sony sucks at building software.

EDIT: that is with the exception of Vegas Pro... but that is a whole other division

 

I second that!

 

You can always uninstall it and live happily forever thereafter.

or you can do some checks just to make sure it's not due to some other problems, like corrupted sectors/files or broken hardware.

Run event viewer. Look around and before the time this thing showed up.

Also, google the exact same message. I suspect you're not the only one who had this problem, in which case, we can probably attribute the source of the problem to the incompetence of certain Sony's programmers.

 

I don't really see anything in Event Viewer that looks troublesome. I didn't really do anything to immediately trigger this popup message. I think I'll just uninstall it the next time I get an error. Thanks for the replies!

Yes, Sony software in general sucks. I do have Vegas but I haven't played around with it yet, though.

 

What does that program do?

Don't have it on my Z11/SA.

 

OK I might've messed something up. As I was installing ~14 Windows Updates, I also uninstalled Vaio Messenger from the control panel. After the Windows updates, it required a restart of the computer. I restarted it, and after it booted back up, I was unhappy with the fan constantly running. I believe the irratic fan noise was a direct result of the Windows updates so I restored Windows to an earlier point in time. This made the fan noise go away, but on the control panel, it still shows Vaio Messenger as installed. I try to uninstall it, but nothing happens. I think this glitch/error is because I restored windows to an earlier point in time after I've uninstalled the program.

During the same computer session I got another popup that looks exactly like the Vaio Messenger one, but this one says Center Stage. I have no clue how to get rid of this popup and that weird arrow thing on the left (aside from clicking "x" but I want to uninstall it). Control panel does not recognize Center Stage as a program I have installed. Any suggestions?

 

I wouldn't worry too much about it. It doesn't change the fact that your copy of Vaio Messenger is broken (it's just that now it's more broken than usual ). You can just stop it from running on start-up using msconfig.

If you prefer a cleaner way of doing things, here's what I'd do: remove vaio messenger's entry from the list of installed programs using one of those tools one can easily find on download.com, re-install vaio messenger, and then uninstall it.

This is assuming the new error messages that you get come from vaio messenger.

If it comes from a shared component (used by other sony programs as well), then you ought to re-install all sony related things (including vaio messenger), and then uninstall vaio messenger.

If it doesn't come from sony, well, I'd use a process explorer or spy++ to look at which process the error message window belongs to, find the process's file location, and figure out what to do from there, e.g. if it's in a program folder in c:\program files, I'd see if I can uninstall that particular program using control panel. Otherwise I'll just rename it, reboot, make sure windows doesn't go stupid, and delete it for real.

 

VM seems to be useless. I've lived without it for a year, and still can't find an explanation of what it does.

 

I don't know how Vaio Messenger runs in the background, but there's no option for it on msconfig and it's still been popping up these last few days.

The three Sony programs I have running at startup are "PMB, ISB Utility, and SmartWi."

The new error messages appear to be coming from "Center Stage" not Vaio Messenger, despite being in the same style dialog box (so it makes it seem like a Sony program).

From the VPC Z1390X files: Sony eSupport - VPCZ1390X - Software Updates & Drivers I don't know which one is Vaio Messenger. If I did, I would've reinstalled it in order to uninstall it by now.

I'll leave the computer be for another day to see if I get the random popup again before I proceed.


Hrmm looks like some other people have the same issue I have but found no resolution: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110619160515AA1czb8

 

Look here: DDNi Products
Your Vaio Messenger error was ddni - this marketing company Sony uses. You can read the details at the site. Also Center Stage is the app it uses. I'm too busy at the moment to read all the details but I noticed the word oasis and I remember before I removed all the junk from my computer that there was a process or service or both with oasis in it. Look for that and anything that has DDNI associated with it and you should find the source.

 

Thanks for the link jpride. I actually uninstalled an Oasis app earlier today when I was looking around at what unnecessary programs I have installed. Since earlier today, I haven't gotten any more errors. +rep all around.

 

Hallelujah!!!!! Thanks.... Oasis was the one....

 

You can try uninstalling VAYO Messenger and reinstalling it again. It looks like it helped in my case.
Simply follow these steps suggested by DDNi:
First, uninstall Oasis2service and VAIO messenger.
Restart.
Then, you can reinstall it again, downloading VAIO Messenger installation package from DDNi website.
More details can be found here:
DDNi Clean Uninstall and Reinstall of VAIO Messenger for Users