Fighting with Sony Corp.

Yesterday I had a chance to meet with a Sony VAIO vgn-cs110e laptop. OS on this laptop was killed either by a virus or poor windows update, however the solution was to do a fresh install of Vista Home Premium. But after installation the other problem appears: after downloading all the drivers, I installed the Sony Notebook Utilities. Then ever since that, this pop up would keep showing up and force me to hibernate.

No matter if it's a kind of collusion between Sony and Microsoft to prevent installation of any non-OEM copies of Windows or just a bug, but the only way to fix this problem was to uninstall Sony Notebook Utilities. This is a really bad idea as it disable laptop's web-camera...
So, after the long googling and exploring system processes I found out that you need to disable "ISB Utility" service (using Starter software or msconfig) to prevent that noisy popup to appear.

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