I wrote this up for the forum at (the main forum it seems for the VAIO P), but I’ll post it here too. Here’s how to clean install Windows 7 and the minimal amount of Sony software, which results in a striking improvement. Out of the box running Vista my P11Z was barely usable. Sony VAIO laptops come installed with lots of bloatware and, given the VAIO P series’ low power CPU, this really ruins it.
