Sony utilities on Windows 7

Hello everyone,

so, I've installed Windows 7 on my SZ650N and it is working like a charm. Most drivers were automatically installed and now I get everything to work properly. Thanks to this post ( http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=336895).

However, I have one question concerning the original sony utilities that came with vista. Actually, I'm trying to avoid as much as I can to install all of them. So far, I had to install Sony Utils Dll, Shared Library, Setting Utility Series and Event Service to get my FN keys to work.

Now, there are still several "to be installed":

1) Battery Care Function
2) Batery Checker
3) HDD Protection Utility
4) Video Shared library
5) Camera Capture utility
6) Camera Utility
7) Control Center
8) Power Management
9) Status Monitor
10) Hardware Diagnostics

My question is: what do you guys think it is really essential? I don't really want to increase the number of processes running so I can have fancy apps. that I'll almost never use.

Again, everything works perfectly by now. Thanks for your inputs by advance.

 

If you are happy with it, leave it like it is.

 

Indeed I am. In fact, I'm trying to figure out what each utility could improve (in terms of usability).

One of the things I miss is the High-performance power plans. Will any of these utilities install it?

I mean, did you install #2, #7, #8 and #9? What do they add?

thanks in advance

 

On my model, #1 and #2 are the same thing. I installed a different Battery Care to get that working, but I skipped Battery Checker as it's not really worth the hassle.

I am however a firm believer in battery care.

 

thank you for your response, leslieann. How about the power plans? Do you have only two (Balanced and power saver) as well?

 

Under those two options, to the right is a small down arrow looking thing.

Click that and the others will show.

In small print under them it actually does say "show additional plans" but it's easy to miss. It looks like a dividing line or something and it isn't. Very poor design.

 

wow! I've completely missed that! like you said, the design isn't the best one. I think they should have kept all three power plans visible but whatever..

thanks!