I recently reformatted my hard drive and installed Windows 8. I redownloaded the Vaio Control Center from the Sony website and it seems like some options are... missing.
This is kind of a problem. Before I reformatted, I turned on battery protection, which prevents the battery from charging more than 80%. It seems that Control Center bakes this setting somewhere into the hardware, because now its stuck at 80% (even in Ubuntu) and I have no way to change it back. I have other problems (Keyboard backlight, screen brightness controls don't work), but this is my main one. I tried downloading an earlier version of control center, but it would not install, even in compatibility mode. I'm at a loss as to what to do. I could install windows 7 but I don't want to undo everything I installed just to toggle a setting.
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I recently reformatted my hard drive and installed Windows 8. I redownloaded the Vaio Control Center from the Sony website and it seems like some options are... missing.
http://i.imgur.com/5Wpq5.png
This is kind of a problem. Before I reformatted, I turned on battery protection, which prevents the battery from charging more than 80%. It seems that Control Center bakes this setting somewhere into the hardware, because now its stuck at 80% (even in Ubuntu) and I have no way to change it back. I have other problems (Keyboard backlight, screen brightness controls don't work), but this is my main one. I tried downloading an earlier version of control center, but it would not install, even in compatibility mode. I'm at a loss as to what to do. I could install windows 7 but I don't want to undo everything I installed just to toggle a setting.
Any ideas?
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