Cleaning up the Vaio

DMGrier

DMGrier

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So I have had my Vaio for about a week and I like it. I have been working on removing the bloatware and doing some stuff in msconfig but I got some questions about if these things are okay to remove.

In msconfig under the startup tab would it be okay to remove Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager from the Startup without it doing any harm to the OS, I don't see why not but I figure it is better to ask.

Then ofcourse a lot of the bloatware is Sony crap which I removed about 95% of it, pretty much media programs. The one I am unsure to remove is the Sony Vaio update manager. From what I get it does updates to the Vaio like the Windows update Manager and I don't see a point to it for it is just crap on my OS but I figure you guys could lead the way and help me out with if it is a good idea or not to remove it. I assume it is there for updates to hardware on the system?

Thanks for any input guys.
 
As a fellow Vaio owner, I think I can help.

All those adobe things can be disabled safely. You won't get adobe updates and a few other niches, but as long as you go to adobe.com once in a while and update it yourself you'll be good.

The vaio update software is a bit of a catch 22. I used it in the first month of owning my laptop to get lots of driver updates and a few other fun things, but I havn't seen an update on it in about a year now. Making it very useless software. So I removed it from my system and have been happy ever since.
 
There was so much crap wear on this Vaio that sony out on. I do not mind free software but damn couldn't Sony put some of there quality software on here. I would rather use what Windows already provides considering that latest Windows Essentials is actually some pretty good quality software as far as Windows Movie maker and Live Photo Gallery for basic production and editing. Not like Sony put anything advance on there.
 
DMGrier said:
There was so much crap wear on this Vaio that sony out on. I do not mind free software but damn couldn't Sony put some of there quality software on here. I would rather use what Windows already provides considering that latest Windows Essentials is actually some pretty good quality software as far as Windows Movie maker and Live Photo Gallery for basic production and editing. Not like Sony put anything advance on there.
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Live essentials is free from microsoft update...

My Sony came with a complete legit install of Roxio, which I thought was nice. Most other namebrands I see in the shop usually have completely stupid s*$@ like "Ebay links" or "Norton 30 day trial."

Anyway, Frankly, HP and Dell put far more destructive bloatware on laptops. A friend of mine purchased an HP i7, 8 gigs of ram, ati 5950 (I might be wrong on that gpu) and with all the HP bloatware it couldn't even run minecraft. Fresh install of windows and it handles crysis 2 fine.

Asus and Acer supposedly put a minimal amount of bloatware.
 
They're all as bad as each other, formatting the things as soon as you get them is the way to go :good:
 
linkin said:
They're all as bad as each other, formatting the things as soon as you get them is the way to go :good:
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I agree but in the time you spend making a recovery disc unless you are a Dell owner it is just faster to go in and go through and remove crap in control panel and then go into msconfig and uncheck program in your start up.
 
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