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My Sony netbook is running windows 7 home premium but I believe the IE is out of date and when I attempt to load IE11, I get the message Internet Explorer cannot display the web page. I have tried several suggestions includingVaio help but without success. Can somebody offer me a solution other...

I have a VAIO core i5 laptop that died, seemingly of some sort of hard disk issues (or possibly a virus? ... However, McAfee didn't alert me to any virus problems). I tried lots of fixes (including using a bootable recovery USB that I had created in the past. For some reason, however, that...

I have a VAIO core i5 laptop that died, seemingly of hard disk trouble. After trying lots of fixes (including using my bootable USB, which just wouldn't work), I finally managed to get the computer to initiate recovery via 'VAIO Assist' and to do some hard disk repair, and then it seemed to work...

I am not sure how this works but I have a serious question regarding the free upgrade. I bought a Sony Vaio back in 2012 when it was brand new. In 2014 the HDD gave out and I recently was given a brand new one (HDD) by a friend who bought the wrong one for his laptop but it fit in mine. I had...

So to get started i have a Vaio laptop NOW i know i read the article about microsoft telling you NOT to update vaio laptops but when i went away for a week to visit a couple of buds my brother ended up updating it. I had problems with Windows 10 so i decided to downgrade back to Windows 7 and...

Hi, I have a Sony Vaio VPCS13L8E which we have just installed Windows 10 on. Working perfectly EXCEPT the brightness controls ~ the brightness is very dim! I can change the brightness up to 100% and it doesn't get any brighter. My boyfriend has a Vaio also and his brightness controls work. I...

I have a VAIO laptop running Windows 7 with two monitors connected. One monitor is connected through the VGA port, the other is connected to the HDMI port. Both monitors are identical, and the one that is connected to the HDMI port is connected using an HDMI/VGA adaptor. I've been trying to set...

Windows ( in the case Vista home Premium a system i am restoring on a VAIO for a friend). Setting it up with an Admin account and a standard user account. a Few questions: When is the best time to add the standard user account for everyday use? Here is why i ask, i notice that sometimes certain...

my laptop Vaio is running windows 8.1 single language and I want to renew install it. But recovery in lap is windows 8 with i just want install drive C and keep my files on other drive. I need your help.

The computer is a VAIO 6.2 running Windows 7 Home Premium. When the computer goes into sleep mode it is shutting down. We click the power button and the VAIO screen keeps cycling. In order to start Windows we click the F10 and get a message that Windows was not shut down properly so we have to...

On my sony VAIO duo 11 windows 8, I have a virus that makes everything a "shortcut" especially on my flash drives. The problem is, I want to reinstall windows from the recovery partition that's on the HDD. However, every time I try to copy the recovery partition onto a flash drive, it copies...

Hello everyone, I have a Sony VIAO running windows 7. The laptop is about 3 years old I believe. I'm having an extremely strange problem that seems to have no solution. About a year ago, one day out of the blue, the laptop went crazy. I would try to type something and whenever I pressed a key...

I have Windows XP running (in English) on my SONY VAIO laptop. I want to install another language but can't do it because it keeps asking me to insert the disk. The system didn't come with a disk, as it has the recovery features in a partition on the hard disk. My question - Is there some way...

Just a feedback. Advanced System Optimizer (Link Removed) found 23 outdated drivers on my two-week old Sony laptop with Windows 8. Even Sony Vaio Care has not informed me about outdated drivers. As we all know, Microsoft does not recommend using third party software with Windows 8 OS. Is it...

Hi, I have a vaio SVS151290s with windows 8 preinstalled. I partitioned the hard drive with easeUS partition master when it reset it refuesed to boot, I was finally able to get it to boot by following some bcd commands i saw in the forum. windows seems to be running fine but i cant seem to...

When I installed Windows 8 on my Sony Vaio, it thinks my monitor is Non - Pnp and won't fill up my screen. How can I fix this? I really hope that I can somehow download a driver to make windows 8 realize my monitor is a laptop. Any ideas?

Hi, Ive been having a problem with my services program. My laptop (vaio) has been having problems with the hot-keys and I found out the problem was that the Vaio Event Service doesnt start when I turn it on so i turn the service on and set the service to start automatically at start-up. This...

Hi, Ive just bought a used vaio which had vista installed decided to install window's 7 everything went ok, Just one problem ive got is the av mode key doesnt work as it should if the laptop is switched off the av mode but switche's it on ? Ive read somewhere i need the sony launcher for it to...

Okay so I have Sony Vaio VGN-CR11Z. When I got it I had Vista home Premium but my brother currently installed Windows 7 on it, after this my MotionEye built in webcam do not work. I search around for a very long time for a download or something to fix this problem but i've found nothing. And...

Have been experiencing intermittant BSODs with my laptop running windows 7. They seem to come completely randomly and event viewer has not been able to give me any useful information. I have a VAIO NW Series Notebook PC Link Removed...