The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    TXN removing bloatware with Sony backup recovery DVDs

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by lithium, Oct 8, 2006.

  1. lithium

    lithium Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    29
    Messages:
    111
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I have read comments about the preinstalled bloatware in the TX and SZ series. People have formatted the hard disk and reinstalled the operating system, but that sounds challenging.

    I know you can make their own recovery DVD set, which would unfortunately include the bloat. Has anyone tried using the recovery DVDs brought from Sony?: "A set of DVD's that includes the Microsoft Windows program, plus any original Sony software and device drivers included with the PC. The recovery DVD Assembly does not include any Word processing software, 3rd-party programs, or games."

    http://servicesales.sel.sony.com/web/viewItemDetail.do?operation=getItemDetail&itemID=628934&category=3&categoryName=Computer

    Also, the TXN-15 just came out but I wonder what the VGN-TXN19P/17P are that are alluded to in the weblink. This is my first post! I'm hoping to buy a TXN soon- just waiting to see how the other models shake out before I take the plunge.

    Thanks.
     
    lithium, Oct 8, 2006
    #1