Official Sony VAIO F Series i5/i7 owners thread *Part 3*

[philm94]

That's bad advice to newbies, CCleaner is to be used with caution. OK, it was very helpful for XP for example but a lot less for Win 7.

"I highly recommend CCleaner, it is a lot more comprehensive than Vaio_Care" - For an advanced user: yes.

Vaio_Care TuneUp or One Click Care cleans the registry & defrag's it as well has the HDD, etc plus the Vaio_Care report has valuable reminders about backups, recovery discs burning, updates, security, etc, etc.

And it's not made by twits and it's customized for the F:

Why not run TuneUp twice then your CCleaner to see if it can find some important stuff & prove your point?

I've looked the two programs over now, and I can say that there is no massive difference, but with absolute certainty "Vaio Care" is no better for a beginner.

They both do the same suite of cleans, except Vaio Care has limited 3rd party app support - some of those can make a lot of mess about the place.

The difference between Vaio care and CCleaner was 104mb / 1,547 files - based on 3rd party tracks / traces mostly.

Now, to the central nexus of your argument "Vaio Care is customized to the F" - I say nay. The F is no different to the C, Z, or my 4 year old Dell. The software environment, Windows 7, is the constant here, not the underlying hardware, which these tools have no access to. Bar some different driver versions CCleaner will see each Win 7 machine as the same job. Vaio Care, if indeed it could run on other hardware, would work just as well.

I'd rather 'trust' a software cleanup tool tested by millions of users, on all imaginable software combinations, than a company like Sony who dump it in as an extra with their hardware.

Not to mention, the support information given with CCleaner is a lot more verbose than Vaio Care offers.

[Fishon]

Someone help me fall in love with this machine again. :]

Visit your favorite p o r n site?

[jjthenovice]

Thanks. I'll run AS SSD in both normal and safe modes and see what I get. Can you run HD Tune and do the same?

Here' some HD Tune results ( I just downloaded test ver ). I don't have time to figure out how to use it properly so I just ran what was obvious. When I tried to do a write it gave an error (something about disabling partitions I think). My boot time using the Sony Vaoio stuff is 28 sec. Hope this is what you're looking for.

[danielh97]

Here are my HDTune Pro Read results for my aftermarket replacement hard drive. Very similar to Joe's. Seagate Momentus 7200RPM 16MB Cache 500GB



Not in safe mode. Clean install, but I installed lots of programs.

[Undecided84]

I plan on making a purchase by today so if some of you all F series fans could help me that would be great. I'm having trouble deciding between two models, the F11 and the F12. Is the F11 out of date? Should I get the F12? What does the F12 have that the F11 doesn't? Does the F11 have little problems like overheating, annoying high pitch sound etc? I could either get the F12 for $1028.21 or the F11 for $868 (discount included).


F12

CTO | Customize | Sony Canada

F11

CTO | Customize | Sony Canada

[Poohkie]

Hi all!

Just wondering if anybody has installed the latest Windows Update KB2286198.

I am having issues with it - it keeps freezing out after 15%. Anybody else having this problem? It also freezes up when I try to uninstall/cancel the update.

(Keep posting up those diagrams and graphs, adds a splash of colour and pizazz to this place!)

[tiaza]

I recently got a Vaio with Win 7 and there's a lot to recommend it. It's so much faster than my old brick. But one thing I have an issue with is the volume controls.

To adjust the volume - which for me means trying to hit the mute late at night when something too loud bangs up - I have to either mouse over to the volume icon and fumble there or hit one of the function keys. There's no outside volume control or even a quick mute button.

Complicating this is the print on the Fn keys. What genius decided to use DARK BLUE print on a black key?! Every time I want to adjust the volume, I need to lean over real close to even see which key to press. And then I have to use 2 buttons!

Dedicated volume control buttons either above the keyboard or the front edge would have solved this. Instead we get play/pause, stop, track previous and track next buttons - which would be great if I used the disk player more often than I use the volume!

Is there a way to reprogram these buttons to something more useful? I'm thinking of reprogramming one of the top right buttons (Assist, S1, Vaio) to Mute. I know at least one of them can be reconfigured though I haven't checked out how to do it.

I'm also considering etching VISIBLE icons above the function keys. Classy solution, I know, but at least I would be able to see them.

[Undecided84]

just curious, which model did you buy and for how much?

[Fishon]

I plan on making a purchase by today so if some of you all F series fans could help me that would be great. I'm having trouble deciding between two models, the F11 and the F12. Is the F11 out of date? Should I get the F12? What does the F12 have that the F11 doesn't? Does the F11 have little problems like overheating, annoying high pitch sound etc? I could either get the F12 for $1028.21 or the F11 for $868 (discount included).


F12

CTO | Customize | Sony Canada

F11

CTO | Customize | Sony Canada

Slightly better processing speeds. I would get the F12 for additional dollars mentioned.

[Fishon]

Hi all!

Just wondering if anybody has installed the latest Windows Update KB2286198.

I am having issues with it - it keeps freezing out after 15%. Anybody else having this problem? It also freezes up when I try to uninstall/cancel the update.

(Keep posting up those diagrams and graphs, adds a splash of colour and No pizazz to this place!)

Not issues so far with my update.