Comments on: Vista is a dog…

By: Andrei

Andrei — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:05:43 +0000

hello
I own an sony vaio VGN-FE890 and I would like to make downgrate from Vista to Xp … i’ve tryed some drivers, fro internet, but many things were not working … can you please help me?

10x

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:37:00 +0000

@James -

I believe now that the typing issue is associated with IE 7. Try downloading Firefox and see if it goes away. (Can’t remember if Office 2007 was a problem as well, since I reverted to Office 2003 in order to get other performance gains.)

Good luck,

Pete

By: James

James — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:22:58 +0000

Hi,

I have VAIO VGN-TXN27N and I’m having the missing key stroke problem. It’s missing key strokes even as I’m typing this.

Do you have any solutions to this? I downgraded to XP but it didn’t work as I’d hoped. So I’ve reloaded the original factory settings (Vista) and the problem is back.

Any help appreciated!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:55:36 +0000

ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/pub/OS/

All the drivers you need

Also, use Sony Programmable I/O and Notebook Control, and SmartWi from the TXN15 or 17 series from sony support site, and you’re good to go. I havent found the Sprint card drivers.. but everything else seems to work well.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:53:26 +0000

ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/pub/OS/

Downgrade to XP.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:36:18 +0000

@Quyen -

Just to reiterate – It is working much better now. I even turned the look/feel stuff back on. I believe the performance problem was due to search/index (still off, replaced with X1) and/or Office 2007 (downgraded to old Office Pro 2003).

I do think IE Protected Mode has a problem with the keyboard driver – it loses characters that I type.

By: Quyen Arana

Quyen Arana — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:28:23 +0000

We’re also struggling to get the same VGN-TXN27 (1.33GHZ, 2GB RAM) to perform. It’s crawling out of the box. I also just about to install XP, but want to do just a bit more research first.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:23:37 +0000

@Linus -

I got it working to an acceptable level. Turned off search/index (and installed X1, go figure). Uninstalled Office 207 and am using Office 2003 successfully.

Still have a “sluggish” keyboard at times but it doesn’t appear to be the hardware and only happens sporadically so I’ll live with it…

good luck.

By: Linus

Linus — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:48:51 +0000

I bought the exact same model and am considering a downgrade to XP. Have been searching all over the net to see if someone else has done something similar.

I may take the plunge if I can find all the necessary drivers…Sony is no help.

By: Tyler Reguly

Tyler Reguly — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:20:00 +0000

@Pete,

Which Vista logo is on it?

There are different logos.. ‘Vista Capable’ (silver) and ‘Vista Certified’ (gold) and they do have different requirements. I suspect that a lot of vendors pressured for the Vista Capable one by stating that they were indeed capable of running Vista… If your system is ‘Vista Capable’ then it is living up to it’s requirements… if it’s Vista Certified… then I’d say you definitely have a valid gripe.