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With Jeremy's machine, the overriding question was simple: Cleanup or clean install? Using the Sony recovery partition, I reinstalled the original factory image of Windows Vista from early 2007 and began fiddling with it.

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His advice to 'the PC manufacturers who are failing to deliver consumer-ready products' is spot on. Over at his LIVEDigitally blog, Jeremy just posted his impressions (short version: ' At long last, after 11 months, Ed Bott has turned my $2500 Vaio laptop into a usable computer'), along with an accompanying video that is truly must-see TV. So you don't have to trust my observations about the differences in performance and overall experience. Meanwhile, both units have left my office - one returned to Sony, the other sent back to Jeremy in the Bay Area. At the end of this post I'll share some of the lessons I learned about how Sony and its rivals can win their customers back.

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In this post and its accompanying image gallery, I'll give you a close-up look at what I had to do to turn Sony's messy, half-baked Windows installation into one that was worthy of their excellent hardware and that took full advantage of the new features in Vista. Over the next two weeks, I played with both machines, switching between the original factory images and my own clean installs to see where the differences lay. Not surprisingly, the CPU and graphics processor in the newer unit were both significantly faster than last year's model.

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The new model is in the same series as Jeremy's machine, and physically nearly identical. After my makeover, this machine was every bit as fast as its specs said it should have been.ДЄround the same time, Sony sent me a brand-new SZ770N Vaio, also with Windows Vista Business installed. (This screen shot, from the accompanying image gallery, shows the blizzard of dialog boxes and icons that are part of the original, unpleasant experience.) The initial results were eye-opening and impressive.

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After he sent me his Vaio in early March, I blew away all traces of the old installation and set up a pristine copy of Windows Vista Business, with up-to-date drivers and zero crapware. That's why, for the past two months, Jeremy and I have been collaborating on an experiment. My instinct and experience says that even under these extreme circumstances, Windows Vista can be fixed. But is it really a hopeless case, or was this system done in by the rush to market and a sloppy OEM integration? As Jeremy documented in a series of posts, this gorgeous machine was ugly in action: slow to start, sluggish when performing everyday tasks, crash-prone, and overloaded with annoying and unwanted software.

Practically overnight, he told me, his experience went from 'awesome' to 'awful.' The experience was so terrible, in fact, that after several months of struggling he finally surrendered, putting his $2500 Windows notebook in storage and replacing it with a MacBook last summer.ДЄt first glance, Jeremy's machine is Exhibit A in the case against Windows Vista. In May 2007, this 15-year Windows veteran replaced his old, beloved, XP-powered Vaio with a newer Vaio that came with Windows Vista Business installed. No one knows that better than my new friend Jeremy Toeman. The exact same setup works fine on Windows XP.If the 'Vista sucks' movement has a public face, it's the Sony Vaio. I have found only one reference to the exact same issue that I am facing, but there is no resolution.

I Googled for dual monitor related issues in Vista and followed through various suggestion including installing the latest ATI Catalyst video drivers, disabling turning off monitors in the power management settings and disabling Transient Multi-Monitor Manager (TMM) task, but nothing has helped so far. As soon as I login using RDP, the monitor comes to life. I only have two options, either reboot the machine, or login to the machine from another machine using remote desktop. When I turn off the left primary monitor (the one using DVI) and turn it back on, I get no signal. The dual monitor is working fine except for one problem. The left monitor (primary) is connected using DVI and the right one is connected to VGA. I have an ATI Radeon 9200 video card that has a DVI and a VGA output. I have 2 19вЂі Westinghouse monitors that have DVI and VGA inputs. This issue with the dual monitor setup in Vista has been bugging me a lot.