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    Slightly different semi-restore on S1VP/UK and boot time question

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by kenster, Mar 25, 2006.

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    Hi all,

    My version is a SZ1VP/CEK (2GHz Centrino duo, 1Gb RAM, 120Gb HDD).

    So I recovered via the disks (removing the recovery partition) - and removed them on reboot.

    It then gave me:
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    From which I did a CTRL-ALT-DEL to get the task manager and went into processes, then killed VARU.EXE.

    Then I ran regedit and deleted APPInstaller as below:

    02.jpg

    The result is a semi-clean bootable S1VP with the following software:

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    The boot time of the 2GHz S1VP is 1min 20seconds, still double the time of my TR2 which comes in at 40seconds (clean XP + drivers)!

    What is the boot time others are getting on the SZ with semi-restore?

    Thanks,

    Ken
     
    kenster, Mar 25, 2006
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