Sony Bloatware!!!

I figure I would post this for the general public. I am usin a VAIO VPCEB15FX

I have been fiddling with the restore today, since having to do to a previous issue. If you restore using recovery disk it allows you to delete the recovery partition (9GB), however this method will still uses up 3GB (1GB System and 2GB for something else). If you go with removal of the restore partition and use the recover disks. It will eventually allow you to choose what to install (bloatware). There is a catch, once you have in stalled the drivers required and the software you want, upon reboot and the system loads up, you will notice the error that says "Windows could not complete installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation." Now as soon as you see this if you ctrl-alt-delete and access taskmanager and you end process of audit.exe it will then finish starting windows. Apparently this app prevents you from using windows with out all the crap the system comes with. S!!!! and to think after a previous issue with people complaining about bloatware they provided tools to remove. Well looks like they need to do it again.

 

Ah Sh!t..! Really?

So after you get rid of Audit.exe everything loads fine? Did your touch pad issues go away yet?

 

I screwed something up and have to retry as mentioned, but initial after ridding Audit.exe it booted into windows fine and I was able to restart, but I was fiddling with somethign and have to start over again. I will post my final findings in the clean install area, once I am confident I have sucessfully did a clean install.