DanCurranJr

Give me a day or two to tinker .I have to laptops, my wife's and mine. I dod not follow the Sony recommended upgrade scheme, just updated, removed the sony crap and been tweaking. I had the speed problem on mine. On hers -- same FX190, I followed sony's directions and have not seen the lower speed I dont think. Ill keep an eye on it and let yo knowwhat I findout. I am seeing my speed jump around too, Let me see what her's does. We'll figure it out. If anyone reading this has the Sony programs running and is NOT seeing a speed change prolem let us know. Software should NOT affect the chip speed --its a BIOS setting. If it is then Sony has to answer to their customers.

Try removing all of the Sony speed step crap and then running it native in WinXP. In BIOS Make sure the chip speed is set to MAXIMUM. I would also play with the docking settings. Im seeing mine change on reboots but in rality your laptop should never be shut off -- just hibernated. Its a matter of finding the right combination

I love being on the phone with tech support and solving a problem myself . . . called Sony, as I was talking to them I was digging around in the settings. I had downloaded WinCPU ID as recommended - great app! For you laptop users, got to the CONTROL PANEL --> PERFORMANCE AND MAINT --> SYSTEM --> HARDWARE --> HARDWARE PROFILES Highlight Profile 1 Select PROPERTIES and -- ready for it? --- simply click THIS IS A PORTABLE COMPUTER Docked,undocked, unkown settings dont seem to matter. Keep in mind I went into BIOS (F2 on reboot) and set it to MAXIMUM. Not sure that matters but I am not going to change it to anything else. As they say in jolly old England ---- Huzzah!

probably loading up the java engine if you just installed XP. THe server is in England, Ill be redoinf the page soon. Might want to try again - never had a problem before

As a heads up, Ill be sending out my next mailing to THE LIST this weekend. It will be a lot of XP related tips and tricks. You may want to get on the mailing list at www.DanielCurran.com -- its free and I dont send out crap.

I have a sony Vaio FX190, Loaded XP pro Runs great but noticed that the SYSTEM reports the P3-850 as 692. Interesting . . .the speed step is 70/850 so not sure where its getting that number. Went into bios and set it for MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE and no change. Any ideas? Do you think the system is only using 692 of the chip or justreading it wrong? All in all LOVE xp -- few tweaks here and there though. as a thank you - check out http://www.patchou.com/msgplus an AWESOM add on for Windows Messenger

This was the fix! THANK YOU REGEDIT: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics] "Shell Icon BPP"="16"