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vaio control center has disappeared

Topic started on Jan 29, 2012 3:07 PM , last reply on Jan 31, 2012 6:21 PM

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cwathen
cwathen
10 posts since
Jan 18, 2012

I am using a VGN-NR10E/S with Vista Home Premium.  The Control Center seems to have gone missing overnight.  The icon has changed and when I click on it I get the message "C:\Programfiles\Sony\Vaio Control Center\Vaio Control Center.exe not valid".  I seem to be getting a lot of problems lately.  Last week my function keys stopped working and you helped me fix this, but they appear to not be working again.  I can manage without the function keys but not without Control Centre.  Can anyone help please.   Thanks. 


  • rich912
    rich912
    9,316 posts since
    Aug 28, 2004
    Written on Jan 29, 2012 3:23 PM

    Hi cwathen,

     

    Have you carried out a FULL virus scan recently?

     

    Re-installing the utilities as suggested in a reply to your previous post should reinstate both the Fn key functions and Vaio Control Center, but you could possibly have other problems.

     

    If a Virus scan followed by re-install of the utilities has no effect then maybe you should consider a return to factory defaults using either the HDD recovery utility or your recovery disks.

    Be aware that you will lose all personal data if you take this route so backup all data you need...

     

    Rich


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  • cwathen
    cwathen
    10 posts since
    Jan 18, 2012
    Written on Jan 29, 2012 3:32 PM

    Thanks for the prompt reply.  I have Norton Internet Security installed so shouldn't have any viruses and the system is showing safe but will run a check and reinstall the utilities as before.  Will update when I have done this.  Thanks. 


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  • cwathen
    cwathen
    10 posts since
    Jan 18, 2012
    Written on Jan 30, 2012 9:36 AM

    Thanks once again.  When I went to set a Recovery Point I noticed that when I extracted Event Service, Control Centre was deleted so it me who had inadvertently deleted it.   I have followed your advice and everything is working again now.  I have checked and no viruses on system.  Very grateful.  Would have been clueless without your help. 


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  • rich912
    rich912
    9,316 posts since
    Aug 28, 2004
    Written on Jan 30, 2012 10:53 AM

    You’re very welcome cwathen. Pleased to hear that all is now back to normal


    Rich


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  • flogger12345
    62 posts since
    Jan 8, 2012
    Written on Jan 30, 2012 4:54 PM

    Just for future reference, all security softwares including Norton is not 100% guarrantee of detecting online threats. Creating a system restore point regularly should be a best practice to avoid things like this in the future. http://imagicon.info/cat/12-13/vbulletin-smile.gif

     

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  • cwathen
    cwathen
    10 posts since
    Jan 18, 2012
    Written on Jan 31, 2012 6:21 PM

    Thanks for the advice.  Will do in future.  Thanks. 


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