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    Viao Personalization Manager...

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by aknight, Oct 29, 2010.

  1. aknight

    aknight Notebook Guru

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    Right this bit of Sony bloatware is constantly raping my cpu usage and it is starting to annoy me as I cant seem to see much point in it. Does anyone actually know what the point in it is? And is it safe to just disable it from running unless asked to? If so how?
    I have already been onto MSCONFIG but I cant find it in the list of programs that run on start up, although there is A LOT of Sony ones which I'm tempted to disable as well but not sure what consequences may arise from that?
    I'm guessing its not on there because it doesn't run every start up so how do I go about disabling it?
    Cheers :)
     
    aknight, Oct 29, 2010
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  2. Achusaysblessyou

    Achusaysblessyou eecs geek ftw :D

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    I noticed that it would use up a lot of my cpu too... so then i uninstalled it... two months ago... So i would have to say it's safe. Just dont uninstall the sony event manager, that's the important one since it usually controls the fn keys.
     
    Achusaysblessyou, Oct 29, 2010
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  3. aknight

    aknight Notebook Guru

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    is there anyway to disable it so I can still have it but just not have it on all the time?
    Im guessing you uninstalled it by finding the folder it was in and there was a uninstall .exe? as it hasn't got a start menu entry...?
     
    aknight, Oct 29, 2010
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  4. Achusaysblessyou

    Achusaysblessyou eecs geek ftw :D

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    To uninstall, do what you usually do, go to Control Panel > Program and Features then go find it and uninstall it.
     
    Achusaysblessyou, Oct 29, 2010
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  5. e14

    e14 Notebook Evangelist

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    this personalization software is used by media gallery to give you suggestions, not sure what else it does
     
    e14, Oct 29, 2010
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  6. Achusaysblessyou

    Achusaysblessyou eecs geek ftw :D

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    Ahh figures... i also uninstalled the media gallery...
     
    Achusaysblessyou, Oct 30, 2010
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  7. warrior811

    warrior811 Notebook Guru

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    I don't seem to have this Personalization Manager on my 1month old Z12 CTO. haven't uninstalled any Sony stuff yet.
     
    warrior811, Oct 30, 2010
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  8. cslaptop

    cslaptop Notebook Consultant

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    Just so you know guys, Media Gallery or other possible names is not listed in my Programs and Features. Even though I found Vpmlm.exe in Sony folder, i didn't want to just rename it or something, so i went into Media Gallery and tweaked some settings. Under content management, there is a analysis and preference learning setting, I went into there and turned EVERYTHING off, i'll see how this will turn out...
     
    cslaptop, Dec 14, 2010
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  9. mbushnaq00

    mbushnaq00 Notebook Evangelist

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    just go to VAIO Analysis Manager and you will find an option like preference learning or something just uncheck it, reboot and ur done
     
    mbushnaq00, Dec 14, 2010
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