New VAIO PC drivers for Windows 10 essential before updating

For Windows 7 SP1 pre-installers, Sony will have “information regarding limitation and issues” later in August. The latest update includes all previous fixes and also fixes several new vulnerabilities.

Windows 10 has had a strong debut since it was released towards the end of last month, with tens of millions of people around the world downloading the new OS, and majority are getting on quite well with it. However, Sony users may want to be a bit more reserved with their upgrade plans, as the Japanese electronics maker has advised Vaio notebook users not to upgrade until later this year. Once that’s done, you should be able to update your computer to Windows 10 just fine. You should plan ahead so the PC can run the more advanced applications, thus avoiding the need to upgrade twice. Acer, Dell, Lenovo, HP and Asus are just some of the companies that are already providing Windows 10-ready drivers for their laptops, and many provide step-by-step instructions guiding users through the upgrade process. This will help in learning what to do and what to avoid, and will make the upgrade process easier for other PCs. At the appointed month, Sony says it will release upgrade instructions, as well as the appropriate hardware drivers and upgraded applications. Call us cynical, but that sounds an terrible lot like Sony’s support of Windows 10 on older Windows 7 PCs will be half-hearted, at best. Upgrading without backing up all of the files and the system as a whole can lead to data loss.

We don’t know why it’s taken Sony so long to issue this notice, given that Windows 10 has been available to the public for over two weeks now.

“Windows, even XP, is a complex operating system and some data lives outside of easily identifiable files, such passwords and preferences”, says Goldsmith.

Over time, documents may have been filed into desktop folders, temporary files, or even a recycle bin. Additionally, remember to back up hidden partitions. “You must back up this extremely important partition too”.