Alright here's my specs
Model- Sony Vaio VPCF122FX
Processor- Intel Core i7 Q 740 @ 1.73 Ghz (2.93 Intel Turbo Boost)
OS- Windows 7 Home Premium
RAM- 4GB
I guess I know more about computers than the average person but i'm no expert so try to not go too technical on me.
I got my Vaio in August, 2010 for use at college. When I got it, it had a bunch of useless sony junk on it. I haven't ever used any of it and don't really do any media editing or anything like that. All I really use the laptop for is internet browsing, Microsoft office, and playing the occasional game. As far as maintenance I've run CCleaner before and disk defrag every once in a while too. I also do a weekly virus scan with AVG free edition. I just cut out all the unnecessary startup programs but i'm still running about 95 processes with no programs open. That seems to be way too many. I thought about posting the whole list of processes but it would be much too long. If this would be helpful for accurately answering my question please let me know and I will post it.
I know lots of people like to "clean" their Vaios right out of the box and I regret not doing that. Would it make sense to just make a backup file of all my important docs and reformat the hard drive and reinstall the OS or should I take other steps? I've also heard that there's problems with some sort of Sony system recovery tool that leaves behind digital junk (empty files, reg errors, ect) Any info on this? Any help or recommendations I could get for this would be great. Thanks!
By request here's all the processes. I'm assuming that you needed to see processes for all users. The only way I knew to copy it was with a screenshot? Don't know if that's right but here it is. Sorry for the large images and the side scrolling but I wanted to make sure everyone could see them so I left them actual size. Is their an image size rule on this forum? I didn't see one. If there is let me know so I can shrink them a little. Notice that there are actually 105 processes running
Model- Sony Vaio VPCF122FX
Processor- Intel Core i7 Q 740 @ 1.73 Ghz (2.93 Intel Turbo Boost)
OS- Windows 7 Home Premium
RAM- 4GB
I guess I know more about computers than the average person but i'm no expert so try to not go too technical on me.
I got my Vaio in August, 2010 for use at college. When I got it, it had a bunch of useless sony junk on it. I haven't ever used any of it and don't really do any media editing or anything like that. All I really use the laptop for is internet browsing, Microsoft office, and playing the occasional game. As far as maintenance I've run CCleaner before and disk defrag every once in a while too. I also do a weekly virus scan with AVG free edition. I just cut out all the unnecessary startup programs but i'm still running about 95 processes with no programs open. That seems to be way too many. I thought about posting the whole list of processes but it would be much too long. If this would be helpful for accurately answering my question please let me know and I will post it.
I know lots of people like to "clean" their Vaios right out of the box and I regret not doing that. Would it make sense to just make a backup file of all my important docs and reformat the hard drive and reinstall the OS or should I take other steps? I've also heard that there's problems with some sort of Sony system recovery tool that leaves behind digital junk (empty files, reg errors, ect) Any info on this? Any help or recommendations I could get for this would be great. Thanks!
By request here's all the processes. I'm assuming that you needed to see processes for all users. The only way I knew to copy it was with a screenshot? Don't know if that's right but here it is. Sorry for the large images and the side scrolling but I wanted to make sure everyone could see them so I left them actual size. Is their an image size rule on this forum? I didn't see one. If there is let me know so I can shrink them a little. Notice that there are actually 105 processes running
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