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| Thread ID: 131083 | 2013-04-24 22:31:00 | Cleaning out Sony Vista laptop | cowboy stu (7021) | Press F1 |
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| 1338290 | 2013-04-24 22:31:00 | Hi My son's 4 yr old Vaio 1 gig ram Vista needs a clean out. All data has been removed. Have Run CCleaner, diskwipe . What else should I do to restore to original .. seems sluggish. Have no disks. Thanks |
cowboy stu (7021) | ||
| 1338291 | 2013-04-24 22:35:00 | Put more ram in it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1338292 | 2013-04-24 23:03:00 | You may be able to do the recovery from within Windows, Look for Sony -> Recovery and follow onscreen instructions, or, Restart the laptop, when the VAIO logo appears on the computer's screen, press F10 (or F12 ?) to start the recovery process. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the restoration. Add more RAM as suggested by Speedy will improve the performance. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1338293 | 2013-04-25 00:30:00 | thanks .. reinstall underway | cowboy stu (7021) | ||
| 1338294 | 2013-04-25 03:29:00 | Once you're done, if it has the facility, might pay to make a set of recovery discs. If the HDD dies, the recovery partition will die too, then it will be quite awkward to repair the laptop :) The "sluggish" symptom can possibly be a HDD developing bad sectors, do a chkdsk (windows.about.com) too. |
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| 1338295 | 2013-04-25 06:13:00 | will do thanks.... getting there now | cowboy stu (7021) | ||
| 1338296 | 2013-04-25 06:14:00 | Is MSSE the virus detector of choice for Vista ? | cowboy stu (7021) | ||
| 1338297 | 2013-04-27 22:50:00 | Depends , if it goes slow after you install MSSE remove it. I installed it on this netbook but it took twice as long to boot into windows. So, I removed it. Altho this is on Win7 not Vista. But its got more ram in it too (2 GB not 1) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1338298 | 2013-04-27 22:56:00 | With only 1GB of RAM, Vista will be nothing but slow. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1338299 | 2013-04-28 02:24:00 | Agreed, throw some more RAM in it as Speedy / Agent_24 mentioned. You can find out what type you need (The speed / brand doesn't matter so much, just the type, such as "DDR2") by visiting here: www.crucial.com I would personally run NOD32 over Security Essentials. Sure, it costs a little, but the speed difference is most certainly noticeable in my opinion! |
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