Three questions about Vaio software...

1: Is there a temporary fix for this annoying problem with the latest version of Intel's wireless service driver, where the whole driver freezes when the system shuts down, and XP has to force-kill it on its own?

2: Is there a way to get rid of the same service's window occasionally opening on startup, with a stupid "Message", "Title body" and such nonsense appearing?

3: I hear that one can switch Nvidia's new drivers (and I assume only the new ones work with Vaio SZ, and e.g. the good and tried Omega drivers won't) from the horrible, unusable "new look" to the old "Classic View", and that in fact there is an option with that name somewhere... but for the hell of it, I cannot locate such an option anywhere. Is it really available in these drivers, and if so... where exactly?

 

I don't know how these questions are related to vaio softwares. Anyways, I have never had the first 2 problems you described and I have never heard anyone else having them. Do they happen since day 1 you received the computer? They could be caused by adware/spyware.

 

The first problem is very common starting with Intel's 10.5.1 version of the driver (Sony even makes a small mentions of it on the driver download page), and a "temporary fix" that I read was to disable Intel's driver until they remove it, and use XP's own instead, but I went through all services in the system manager and only saw Microsoft's own being loaded, not Intel's.

The second problem is described online with other Intel drivers, but there's no fix for it. :\

As for the third, it got even "better", since just in case I completely removed Nvidia's driver and then installed it again, from scratch... and now the "new" panel doesn't display anything. Great.