Re: should I format my new Vaio TZ ?

On May 23, 1:38 pm, "G.G.Willikers" <no...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-keevill- wrote:
On May 23, 8:56 am, "BigJim" <woody10...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DO NOT REMOVE VISTA unless you can get the drivers from SONY for XP.
If they are not on the Sony site you will not find them anywhere else.
Just remove the bloat ware on the machine that you don't want.

If the drivers, chipset, sound, video, wireless and wired Ethernet are on
the Sony site
you can have a go at xp.

what about my question about retaining some of the pre-installed
software such as the vaio power management which seems to work very
well - for example using the 'ultimate battery' setting then I can get
about 8 hours out my machine. Is this software downloadable from
anyware if I do decide to reformat to XP ??
Or perhaps there are manual settings in order to achieve the same
result ??

A very recent thread around here says you are most likely SOL.
instead of fishing for answers here, how about doing some legwork and
check out the sony website yourself.

Thank you for your input but I think you are not really reading my
post.
I am asking that assuming the drivers are able to find found for XP .
then would the loss of the Sony prop software specifically the vaio
power managment be sufficient reason NOT to format to XP?
OR are the these programs able to be downloaded after format either
from Sony ( I have looked but cannot find ) or are there others from
other vendors which do the same apparently useful jobs ?
.

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