sony vaio recovery disk download windows 10

I just found out that I'm getting the recovery disk, but would like to know if it's needed, in which case I followed format directions to a t and it's some how slower though then when I got it from what I remember unless I'm going crazy. I reformatted again using a the other CD drive in case the first was damaged, and did all the steps again and it's still unusably slow. I installed Norton Antivirus and didn't notice it get slower, but then I uninstalled it, and saw no change. Tried using it, and it's rediculously slow. One 'Unknown Device' in Device Manager had a yellow question mark but not after installing the drivers. Installed WIndows XP from legal with license and key generic XP SP2 burnt disk.ĭownloaded and installed the drivers in the link. Got the computer, stress tested IE and explorer, and caould have sworn it was running decent with SP2 and no updates, tons of bells and whistles. The instructions ^ say install drivers from a disk/drive before updating windows or even setting up an internet connection, but forums say it doesn't matter. I installed XP from a SP2 disk and updated to SP3 before installing the updates. The 'more info' link goes to a MS page that says to just update to a new SP to fix it though. The drivers: ®ion_id=1&tab=download#/downloadTabĪll installed except Microsoft® QFE (Q833228) Update Utility- under the WIndows OS section gave an error that I needed to install Service Pack 1. I updated drivers, but saw no difference, the format instructions ^ say to download them if without the original CD. I read the VAIO programs are actually not needed to run the machine and are better off not installed if not used, making the Shared Library obsolete too, no? I didn't make a recovery disk with drivers or the Sony Shared Library thing to get the VAIO programs. I stress tested the internet and Windows Explorer and thought it was decent but reformatted to start from scratch and get the highest performance. When I got it, it had service pack 2 and windows update hadn't been run, it had tons of bells & whistle programs like movie shaker and stuff like photo editing that comes with the VAIO that make it a digital studio PC, tool bars, pop up blockers, etc, add/remove had like 50 things not counting Windows updates.

I got it used and could have swore it was pretty fast before I reformatted. It's a Sony Vaio PCV-RX651 80G HD, 256MB ram, 1.72ghz running XP. please selp me get it running full potential. This should be my last thread here about these problems.

Sony vaio recovery disk download windows 10