sony vaio

I bought a Sony VAIO laptop, SVE14113EN model, with Windows 7 and Office Starter 2010 preloaded in it. I have upgraded to Windows 8 around 6 months back and I was able to use Office Starter after that. Last week when I have Reset (Remove everything and reinstall Windows) my Windows 8, I found...

My wife's laptop broke. Sony Vaio running windows Vista. I took out the hard drives. (It has 2 of them) I plugged my SATA/IDE to USB adapter to one of the drives and I got a message saying I must format the drive before I can use it.im running a toshiba laptop with windows 7 64 bit. I plug it...

hey guys, i have a win7 pro, Sony Vaio Laptop, 500GB Hard Disk with 4GB Ram. my hard disk space has been fluctuating for a couple of days. From what i was sure of, or at least the stable remaining memory left in my C Drive Hard Disk was around 5 GB or something, however today i logged and...

Hello, I recently bought a sony waio, windows 8 last December. I installed winrar 4.2 64bit. But whenever I open any zipped folder and chose to open a specific file, winrar would extract out that file. Then, instead of opening that file, it would open any random file from the folder in which...

Good evening! Sorry if I posted this under an incorrect topic area, but I'm at a loss and not sure where to start. So, I shall give you all a brief explanation as to what is up and, hopefully, you can direct me in the right direction? My husband's cousin had been complaining about her laptop...

Hi, I have one problem, look at this: I restored system, but it persist, i haven't idea, what it's... Please help me... Laptop: Sony VAIO VGN-NW320F System: Windows 8 enterprise x64. Sorry for my bad english.

My Wi-Fi router is located on the other end of our house. I can connect to it with my laptop but my wife can't with her iPhone. Since I leave my laptop in our bedroom, I thought I'd try to set it up as a Wi-Fi access point, then she can connect to the internet though my laptop. Currently I...

My son was given a computer (Sony Vaio - E) and the computer was a Chinese boy's. The computer's Window 7 application is broken and needs to be re-installed. I have a windows 7 disk but the prompt boxes that appear only read in Chinese due to the previous setting. I cannot access anything on...

My wife's Sony Viao has a bug that is affecting her email accounts and now the bank account. The error messages refer to an attempt by someone else trying to access those sites. MacAfee can't find it, I downloaded the Windows bug sweep and it quit running before it was done. In the past, I...

I have a sony vaio core i7, 8 gb ram windows 8 pro with hyper-v for windows 8 installed and working. my issue is that all my vms come up fine but after about 10 minutes of inactivity they automatically shut down. I have set all my power options in both the vm and my host as never on all the...

Ok, So, I started up my laptop this morning and the screen was all wonky, It was light blue and there were swiggly white bits, I waited a bit and then restarted it. The Auto Repair started up when the computer started back up so I left it alone for a bit "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your...

Hello, I've been using a PS3 Bluetooth remote (model: CECHZR1E) on my Sony Vaio SVE1512E6EW which has atheros qualcomm bluetooth AR3012 built in. All my drivers are up to date, but yesterday my remote stopped working. It now shows up as "offline". My other bluetooth device (Canon X-Mark...

Morning All, I have a Sony VAIO VPCF22CFX/B, 8GB RAM, 640GB HDD, Win7 Ultimate. I did buy it used & I'm sorta leaning toward HDD failure, but I figured I'd ask the experts. Enclosed is my file. Hopefully you guys can pinpoint the issue. Thanks for checking it out. Oh, & on a POSSIBLY...

I have Sony Vaio PCG-61411L laptop. Recently, my HDD got crashed so I bought a new HDD. Now, I want to install Win 7 on new HDD. From where should I download a copy of Win 7? I already have licence written back of my laptop. And where can I download laptop drivers from? Thanks.

EDIT: Just realised this should probably be in Software forum, sorry. This is a long shot. So, my Dad bought a Sony Vaio Duo 11 Ultrabook (SVD11216PGB) for work. He is very familiar with an old forecasting application called Sage Winforecast Professional v4, which has not been updated in...

Laptop Model Sony Vaio SVT13113EN 500GB HardDrive + 32 GB SSD SATA Mode set to RAID When i tried a clean install of windows 7 (Home premium) the installation setup couldn't detect my drive and I tried loading drivers from flash drive manually got the message "No signed drivers found....."...

Dear all, I recently purchased a SONY VAIO Laptop with Windows 8 OS but everytime I am trying to launch any tiles (e.g. messaging, skype, windows store, etc.) it just goes back to the tiles section. I need some help please. Thanks.

My computer ended up with the malicious toolbar iminent. After multiple attempts to remove it I decided to reformat the computer, since my last backup is mercifully recent. However, when I attempted to run a repair disc, but in the middle of this I received the message in the thread's title...

Hi, I've just come back to windows 8 as I found that 7 suited me better. Now I have installed 8 upgrade as I wanted Media Centre and have only until the end of January to get it for free. A couple of things are not working too well so decided to 'refresh'. I get a message to insert windows 8...

I have been trying (without success) to transfer my e-mail folder files from my old computer (Dell Inspiron 530 using Vista) to my new computer (Sony Vaio using Windows 8). The transfer is from Windows Mail to Windows Live Mail. The recommended method on the old machine using a flash drive is...