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    Removing Sony tz crap-ware

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jpeltier, Feb 13, 2008.

  1. jpeltier

    jpeltier Newbie

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    I have a question for you experts out there. Just bought a tz195 and started removing all the junk that people suggest. When I started I had 18.2G and when I had removed all I knew that I could, it went up to 20.1G. This was uninstalling through program control, deleting files in explorer and emptying the trash. Did Sony compress the drive after puting their stuff on and should I do the same, or is there another secrete? Also, I got rid of the obvious ones, but I'm sure there is more I could get rid of, if I was sure they weren't tied to the camera, dvd, thumb reader, etc.
    Thanks in advance for your advice.
     
    jpeltier, Feb 13, 2008
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    jpeltier Newbie

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    Another question. I thought I bought a 48gb SSD, but windows shows 36.4gb. That seems to be alot more than a rounding error!
     
    jpeltier, Feb 13, 2008
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    Rahul Notebook Prophet

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    Roughly 6gb is taken by the hidden recovery partition, plus Vista takes a bit and with all the Sony bloatware. All hard drives I have seen actually have 92-93% of their advertised space.
     
    Rahul, Feb 13, 2008
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