Any engineers or technician who knows about building PC?

You can resell that for about 50 bucks. The person who buys it won't be using Internet Explorer; they'll be stripping it for parts or using it as a Linux box.

Since this is essentially a laptop (as most all-in-ones are) you have very few performance upgrade options available beyond maxing out the RAM and maybe going to a solid state hard drive (not really necessary). It already has a graphics card upgrade which is great. Really, the best thing you can do aside from the RAM is to run the system reset. This will wipe out everything clean and re-image your PC with an factory-fresh install of the Windows that came with it. Especially since you say that it is lagging, it probably hasn't been cleaned out since the day it was bought, as is with most people. And as with most people, when it starts slowing down/lagging, the first thing they think is that the PC is "getting old" or "wearing out and needs to be replaced" and they start shopping for a new one when in actuality it just needs to be cleaned out of all the crap thats accumulated over the years. And the easiest/fastest way to do that is with a "system reset". It will be as fast and clean as the day you bought it. And the best part about it is that its usually a built-in feature - at least with the PCs from the major manufacturers (like Sony).

The hardest part will be copying off/backing up your working files/pics/etc. before doing the system restore/reset because as mentioned earlier, it will wipe the c:\ drive completely clean. Most of the time it is just a matter of copying out the Documents folder (if that's where everything is stored) but sometimes there are programs that save their projects/working files elsewhere and that's where the work comes in - to make sure you don't miss those.

Be warned - a system reset also wipes out any programs/apps that have been installed after you bought the PC, so you will have to re-install those as well. But the finished project will run oh-so-sweet.

Check here and use the Advisor Tool to see how much more RAM your system can take: http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/memory-info?cm_re=top-nav-_-flyout-memory-_-us-memory

Check the info on this Sony forum post on how to run a system reset/restore:
https://community.sony.com/t5/VAIO-Software-Other-Operating/Restore-computer-to-factory-settings/td-p/27535

You could reformat it with a Windows 7 license, or just build a new PC completely.

It's similar performance to a laptop of that age - pretty much the same parts.

Start out with running ccleaner and a good disc defragmenter to get rid of the junk and optimise the drive.
That should have a significant effect on a machine that has never been optimised.
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download - and defraggler from the same site. Free versions of both.

IE will be faster after that as well, but you are better off using Chrome.


As long as it has enough RAM (4GB or more), it will run Windows 7 perfectly; I would not use 8 or 10.
If it has more than 4GB (or you plan to upgrade beyond 4GB), use the 64 bit version of Windows.
With 4GB or less, the 32 bit version will be slightly better.


The only other upgrade you can do is to swap the hard drive for an SSD. That will make it boot faster and feel a bit more responsive.

It will never be a gaming machine in any current terms but it will make a good general web browsing, word processing & media player setup etc. and should manage old games such as System Shock 2.

(Install the LAV filter pack to allow video playback with minimal CPU load - details here:
http://www.thehtpc.net/htpc-tips-and-tweaks/media-center-lav-filters-and-external-subtitles/
Disable _all_ microsoft stuff in the filter tweaker and set everything possible to LAV).

If you have the remote, that will probably work with the "Windows media center" stuff in Win 7.

Waste of time, it would cost more than a new machine to get enough improvement.

and they always have laptop graphics cards. Like most laptops, they are not worth upgrading except sometimes adding ram or changing a spinning HDD to solid state SSD. The person who buys it won't be using Internet Explorer; they'll be stripping it for parts or using it as a Linux box.

your PC have core 2 duo is goud processor

maybe your computer is good, just that you think not, I'm a thechnic
and I do not like 10, I prefer the 7 is the best. You may have open processes or viruses that cause the computer is slow. if you want a little help
. you see start and write (msconfig) without brackets and the windows startup option disables all. restarts and aver if it helps you a little

http://3alamdigital.net

and they always have laptop graphics cards. Like most laptops, they are not worth upgrading except sometimes adding ram or changing a spinning HDD to solid state SSD. The person who buys it won't be using Internet Explorer; they'll be stripping it for parts or using it as a Linux box.

i'd suggest to get more RAM and/or change the hard drive getting another OS like Windows 7/8/10 could also help

That turd is an all in one. It's not worth carrying out to the garbage can, let alone spending any actual money on. It's a laptop without any of the advantages of a laptop. Trying to improve it will be like beating your head against the wall, you'll feel better if you don't!

build your own pc. here are some useful resources.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2dJvqU2_x4