sony vaio

[James172Cup]

I bought an E series sony vaio lastnight that has an epic amount of Sony pre installed crap on it, can I just haphazardly uninstall all of it in the control panel or will there be repercusions? Also it came with a years free subscription to norton 360 v4.0, is it worth installing or will it slow me down to a crawl like previous Norton used to.
Thanks in advance
James x

 

[jessica_laurie]

I would also like to know this!

 

[Brazo]

Its called bloatware! See my thread below!

 

[The Hoff]

Go to Sony support site, download the drivers you'll need [chipset/wlan/ethernet] to get you up and running. Download an OS of your choice [assuming that like my Vaio FZ, they didn't supply an OEM Windows disc], reformat and do a clean install - it's the only way to be happy with your machine, Sony pack it full of bloat.

Get Avast, or AVG as a free AV solution.

 

[James172Cup]

Nope, no oem disc, just a recovery partition, can I download Windows 7 home premium legitly anywhere or am I heading off to the torrent sites? I take the key on the sticker will activate ok and isn't tied to this install?
Thanks again.

 

[Lancs-Trophy]

Norton 360 is very good i deal with it day in day out what ever you do do not use avg its crap and free for a reason.

Leigh

 

[The Hoff]

Do you work for Norton? Nobody in the right mind would recommend it. AVG is ample for the majority of users, me included.

 

[Lancs-Trophy]

No i dont normal norton internet security is heavy on system memory etc , 360 is much more smoother and works well with windows 7 , another top antivirus for windows 7 is NOD32.

Avg is poor , its free for a reason and you dont have enough protection its better than none but i certainly wouldnt trust it.

 

[oska]

Funny, I've used AVG for about 6 years and never had any problems. I visit some dodgy sites too.

 

[mr.valver]

I just deleted everything off once I got mine, including Norton. Got a copy of NOD32.

Try Avast free edition for anti virus.