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    sony vaio series upgrade os (seems very slow system)

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by VDuke, Jul 6, 2005.

  1. VDuke

    VDuke Newbie

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    Anyone your comments please
    my first problem is that i have bought a sony vaio fs215s which has 1,86GHZ cpu and 1GB ram (333) (replaced the HDD with my 7200RPM Hitachi),
    first as it comes with windows xp home i need to upgrade it to PRO (HOW?) i have tried so but most of the buttons and "other sony system goods not working".
    and the second is that it seems too slow not only to start up (2-3 minutes)but also in applications. the reason i am saying that is because the vaio replaced my acer travelmate 4500 series with 1,5GHZ centrino and 512+256 RAM installed, where, overall to tell you the truth ACER was faster (or at least i believe so) i had installed the 7200 HDD in my acer as well. my opinion is that probably the vaio interface or other programs that came with makes my pc slower, is that true?. I believe that the vaio zone, club vaio and other utilities eat the memory, because i believe that the memory is not enough (where it is 1GB).
     
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  2. Skyshade

    Skyshade Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    VAIO Zone does hurt boot up time, but Norton Anti-Virus and the Trend SpySubtract hurt it even more. Find some other software that are less taxing on the system.

    As for the little buttons, you should be able to find drivers from your recovery partition or recovery DVD/CD set.
     
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