topic Re: Massive speed reduction in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148731#M92664 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Have you tried Tune Up Utilities, it clears out the registry, and makes your system work faster?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:25:19 GMT kee-lo_ 2006-06-21T11:25:19Z Massive speed reduction https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148725#M92661 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>My Vaio VGN-A195EP has suddenly gone dramatically slow on boot &amp; whenever I click on an icon (2 mins to open windows explorer). I had a similar issue 10 months ago &amp; was advised by Sony to reformat the c:drive which appeared to help. Can anyone advise how to do this as I have completely forgotten<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:46:43 GMT https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148725#M92661 CleanBurn 2006-06-21T09:46:43Z Re: Massive speed reduction https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148727#M92662 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Put your recovery disk in the drive and press F10 on bootup<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:12:37 GMT https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148727#M92662 kee-lo_ 2006-06-21T11:12:37Z Re: Massive speed reduction https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148729#M92663 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for the advice - does this sound like a feasible repair for this problem - don't really like being so drastic.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:22:59 GMT https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148729#M92663 CleanBurn 2006-06-21T11:22:59Z Re: Massive speed reduction https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148731#M92664 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Have you tried Tune Up Utilities, it clears out the registry, and makes your system work faster?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:25:19 GMT https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148731#M92664 kee-lo_ 2006-06-21T11:25:19Z Re: Massive speed reduction https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148733#M92665 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I ran Norton utilities &amp; various scans etc - &amp; bootvis - no help<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:41:47 GMT https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148733#M92665 CleanBurn 2006-06-21T11:41:47Z Re: Massive speed reduction https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148735#M92666 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>OK - I saw there was nothing else to do, the pc was crashing even in Safe mode - I ran the recovery disk for C: to retain the data on <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":anguished_face:">😧</span> but it wouldn't write windows back onto the disc - guess the disc is broke - are these easily replaceable? I'd prefer to do it myself to avoid delays sending it off.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:04:57 GMT https://community.sony.nl/t5/pcs-accessories/massive-speed-reduction/m-p/148735#M92666 CleanBurn 2006-06-21T20:04:57Z