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Crybaby — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:23:25 GMT

I'm frankly new to notebooks, and this fr315m is my first one.
From the beginning I started it with the preinstalled windows i didnt feel like it was running smoothly. Is it possible to install any os i want, cause i think the preinstalled is to messy. please help me cause i donno how to on a laptop .

thanks in advance, crybaby

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William — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:31:37 GMT

I used to be wary of running Windows back in the days of Windows 3.11 but must admit that I have been very happy with XP Pro and have neither the inclination nor the knowledge to run another OS.

It is not perfect but its the best Windows OS so far.

William

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paddy_uk — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:31:44 GMT

You can install any OS that you like on your laptop ...... ..... but you won't get support from Sony if you do. Your biggest problem is drivers & finding them for the OS that you choose. Sony will only give you support for what they put on the laptop.

What other OS were you thinking about?

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kee-lo_ — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:32:59 GMT

XP Pro seems to work pretty good with the VAIO.

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tellingd — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 19:39:52 GMT

I went from Win98 to XP Pro, the latter being much better (especially on a network). Exactly what types of problems are you encountering crybaby :smileyconfused::

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robpaxton — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:51:57 GMT

I'm running XP Pro on two of my notebooks and XP Home on the other one. I've found XP to be the most reliable Microsoft O/S ever made (Except for maybe MS-DOS).

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kee-lo_ — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:53:38 GMT

Yeah Win2k wasn't as stable as this.

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paddy_uk — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:54:28 GMT

I have XP Pro on 2 desktops & 1 laptop. I have XP Home on my other laptop & have never had a problem with any of them. XP Pro is a very stable OS in my opinion. XP Pro & Home are far more stable than previous MS OS's and more user friendly than the likes of Linux for the vast majority of PC users.

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robpaxton — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:00:30 GMT

Agree with you there Tom, I had Windows Millennium (It should have been called a Non Operating System) on my Tosh notebook and upgraded to XP Pro the day it was released. It has the original XP Pro install on it and is still running smoothly without any problems .

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paddy_uk — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:09:01 GMT

Win ME was best used as a coaster for tea/coffee cups Rob as it was so crap & a throwout to make MS a few quid without having to put any serious work or thought into it. I had to uninstall it/format so many computers for friends after they put it in that it was not funny. Think I have 10 copies still in my junk box from people giving me their CDs after I pulled it out of their rigs. Could probably flog them on eBay though ....... but would you really help someone commit computer suicide by allowing them to install it?

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kee-lo_ — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:11:13 GMT

Yeah I wish someone would buy Windows ME off me, it's a piece of cr4p.

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tellingd — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:18:27 GMT

I'm running XP Pro on two of my notebooks and XP Home on the other one.  I've found XP to be the most reliable Microsoft O/S ever made (Except for maybe MS-DOS).

I can't remember ever having stability problems with MS-DOS - but then I probably didn't know how to use half of it

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robpaxton — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:23:39 GMT

MS-DOS is still used on some of the CNC units at work so I still get to use it. I even have the pleasure of Windows 3.1 on a couple of machines

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tellingd — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:29:34 GMT

MS-DOS is still used on some of the CNC units at work so I still get to use it.  I even have the pleasure of Windows 3.1 on a couple of machines

Ooh, ooh, ooh! I remember 3.1 - you could change the colour of the window surround and everything

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paddy_uk — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:09:09 GMT

I still have a fully functional 486 in my junk cupboard with Win 3.1 on it & a couple of older jobs in the attic at my mum's house which are MS-DOS jobs. Only reason I haven't binned them is for nostalgia I suppose.

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Oxigun — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:53:46 GMT

The XP home on my notebook was unstable. Installing windows myself (XP Pro) sovled everything. I also have Debian GNU/Linux running (unstable )actually its very stable but the tree is called unstable since its too new to have undergone extensive testing ))

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gordymckellar — Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:56:12 GMT

I have the GRT896hp with P4 2.8Ghz, and

1Gb

RAM.
I use the preinstalled Windows XP pro with one very important modification
...

I am using Cenatek's RamdiskXP which allows me to create a RAM drive at bootup, which the operating system can identify for pagefile purposes (requires registry tweak). I did this primarily because Windows memory management is crap (i.e paging to disk when there is still plenty available physical RAM).
Therefore I created a 250Mb RAM drive and allocated 200mb to a fixed size Windows swap file and 50mb to Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files. The system has no hard drive based swapfile whatsoever.
[http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm?Page=Download&Version=Win9X | http://www.cenatek.com/product_ramdisk.cfm?Page=Download&Version=Win9X]

[size=18]As for performance, the words "sh*t and shovel" spring to mind !shocked.gif|___jive_emoticon_name=shocked|jivemacro=emoticon|class=jive_macro jive_emote|src=shocked.gif!

There is the slight glitch of the Wireless LAN and it's dislike of the Wireless Zero Configuration service, but this can be (here's hoping) worked around, as discussed elsewhere.

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josefnpat — Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:16:35 GMT

I got xp Pro with my laptop... In german... I bought it in ausrtria... someone called Sony and asked them if they could change the language of the notebook to english (same model) and Sony said no... "Impossible"... well i tried anyway... they were right... I couldn't get the SP1 or the SP3 because the code has allready been used... And XP PRO english wouldn't accept my USB 2.0 drivers and my Bluzetooth drivers because they were in german... I decided to use the recovery disk... i'm usin german, but that's ok, i've b3een using german enough.

Seeya

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kee-lo_ — Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:46:20 GMT

Yeah I use XP in English.
I've never had a French computer.