Hello all,

I had to take a trip to the states recently which involved wiping my machine to a zero start point. I took the opportunity to try and remove some of the bloat from Windows and edge out some memory for Applications.

The result - only 80mb memory usage after boot. Leaving a whopping 420mb (in X505 speak) for other applications. This (even without an SSD) will stretch out the life of the machine by some length of time.

TinyXP is available from various sources and we all have valid XP licenses for our X505s. All specialist drivers are available from Sony websites. It was a fairly painless install - and VERY quick.

Hard drive space used after installation was about a gig (600MB windows folder) - leaving a whopping (X505 terms) of 17gb free!

Paired with Google’s chrome the machine runs mightily speedily when compared to the factory bloat ware installation.

I would definitely recommend this to all of those looking to get the most out of their ageing (gracefully) X505s…

Am running: TinyXP Rev09(5) - Service Pack 3

Ke - 28 November 2008 07:11 AM

Hello all,

I had to take a trip to the states recently which involved wiping my machine to a zero start point…

I would definitely recommend this to all of those looking to get the most out of their ageing (gracefully) X505s…

Am running: TinyXP Rev09(5) - Service Pack 3

Good idea! I have to try it!
How do you install TinyXP? Was it necessary to format your present HD first?

George - 03 December 2008 02:16 AM

Ke - 28 November 2008 07:11 AM

Hello all,

I had to take a trip to the states recently which involved wiping my machine to a zero start point…

I would definitely recommend this to all of those looking to get the most out of their ageing (gracefully) X505s…

Am running: TinyXP Rev09(5) - Service Pack 3

Good idea! I have to try it!

So I have done it! The progress is incredible. At the short time and for free my X505 has changed from an old horse to a new F1 car
Really, in some applications the difference is improbable. For example, Mozilla FF waked up previously in about 20 seconds, now in a few second.
Etc., etc.
You must try it too!

Yeah - it’s pretty impressive.

SSD next, SSD + this must be very sweet.

As for your earlier comment - yes (as you probably found out) the Tiny XP install scrubs your HD, but it also contains back up tools allowing you to back up the entire disk to a USB drive first.