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Sony's miserable out-of-box experience

Sony's miserable out-of-box experience
By Ed Bott

Yikes! This is the first thing I saw after restoring the original factory Windows installation from Sony's recovery partition and restarting the Vaio. Crapware on the desktop, junk in the system tray, a slew of dialog boxes demanding attention, and baffling error messages.

For the full story, see Fixing Windows Vista, one machine at a time.
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RE: Sony
I bought a Viao FRV-37 a few years ago with XP. Same thing, but not quite as bad. Another Vista Ready lie?

My Acer 5050 has XP now and the X1100 graphics are better than I thought. Frame rates are up 50% from when I got it with Vista Home installed (8gb)... (Read the rest)
Posted by: atari8bit@... Posted on: 05/01/08 You are currently: Logged In | Log out
Fixing Vista robb_shepherd@...   | 04/22/08
RE: Sony ZDarryl   | 04/22/08
Very WinMe like binaryspiral   | 04/22/08
Exactly. Furiousrog   | 04/22/08
Eeeevil Norton's thomasdietrich@...   | 04/23/08
Removing HAL... Wolfie2K3   | 04/30/08
RE: Fixing Windows VIsta One Machine At A Time uswcfencer@...   | 04/22/08
What a mess b8375629@...   | 04/22/08
RE: Sony readnwrit@...   | 04/22/08
correction in decade- 1980's heh :) readnwrit@...   | 04/22/08
"Crapware ..." TheRealPauper   | 04/23/08
Sounds like trying to remove malware marks055@...   | 04/23/08
RE: Sony grateful   | 04/23/08
RE: Sony atari8bit@...   | 05/01/08

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