Re: should I format my new Vaio TZ ?
- From: "G.G.Willikers" <noone@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 21:29:24 -0400
keevill wrote:
I have just bought a Sony Vaio TZ series and I am considering removing
the pre-installed Vista and other huge slowing progs such as Office
2007 Norton Security Suite etc.
The machine seems a bit slow.
I would install WinXP and lighter version of office/ AVG antivirus
etc
If I do that then of course I will lose some of the Sony applications
such as the power management software which does seem to do the job.
Is this to be recommended ? Will I Lose some good software which I
may regret ?
Seems to me that Sony install loads of bloatware stuff which I really
don't want.
Driver support would be your biggest hang up. Laptops can be especially hard to find drivers for.
My experience with new Vista installations from Sony, Toshiba, and IBM,
is that once all the adware, demo garbage is removed, you will see a huge performance boost.
Check out this little tool:
http://pcdecrapifier.com/
Get rid of the Office 2007 trial, Norton Security, and the other obvious bloatware, and check out some tweak sites, such as:
http://tweakhound.com/vista/tweakguide/index.htm
http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html
AVG is a good plan, and you really can't go wrong with Open Office.
As always make sure you have a Restore Partition or CD for the Vista OS.
Sony probably will not give you any software support if you switch to XP.
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