topic Re: Stoping the recovery service in PCs & Accessories

Stoping the recovery service

Flexing — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:56:42 GMT

hi guys, i restored my FZ11Z back to factory default by using the hidden recovery partion, windows and the essential driver have installed. but every time windows starts, a message comes up asking if i want to recover the apps, (sonic stage etc), which i DO not want at this time and it just seems to just slow down the machine n installs crap.

how do i stop this message from coming up each time windows starts?

i looked in the services and startup via msconfig, but i cant see anything relating to this?

Re: Stoping the recovery service

rich912 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:19:46 GMT

Hi Flexing,

The usual answer is to stop VARU.exe on the msconfig Startup tab, but see whether this thread provides further help...

Re: Stoping the recovery service

Thalamus. — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:24:30 GMT

Hi Flexing,

You should be able to stop Vaio Application Recovery from starting if you go to start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Task Scheduler..

In task scheduler you should have three windows, Overview of Task Scheduler, then below this Task Status and finally at the bottom Active tasks..

In task scheduler go to the bottom section of the centre column (called active tasks)

Double click Vaio Application Recovery or possibly VARU.exe and in the new window select delete...

Re: Stoping the recovery service

Flexing — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:26:45 GMT

thankyou both for ur quick replies, u've been a great help.

and thankyou for that link, it is very useful. i didn't look properly before.

Re: Stoping the recovery service

rich912 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:44:30 GMT

You're welcome Flexing.

and thankyou for that link, it is very useful. i didn't look properly before.

Don't apologise - the search facility on this forum is as much use as a
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Re: Stoping the recovery service

Thalamus. — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:54:19 GMT

You're welcome..

Re: Stoping the recovery service

Flexing — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:20:47 GMT

great, it worked! i had to also download the FZ1_Utilities zip to get the Fn keys to work, but i think thas the only thing i need right now.

Re: Stoping the recovery service

rich912 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:22:37 GMT

Re: Stoping the recovery service

Thalamus. — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:25:12 GMT

Excellent news..