Tips and Warnings. Things You'll Need. Related Articles. Author Info Last Updated: March 29, Create a USB boot disc. A Command prompt box cmd will appear. Press any key to continue. Format the USB drive. First, type H and an HP disk-storage format tool screen will open. Follow the instructions to format the USB drive. Make sure to check the Quick Format box. On the command screen, change your drive type and give XP setup a source path.
If you receive a message about "winnt. On the Unattended Install screen, enter all the necessary values and your serial license key. If you fill out the fields now, Windows will not ask you for any information during the installation. On the command screen, type 2 , press Enter , and then select your USB drive. Prepare the file copy from the disc to your USB stick. On the command screen, type 3 and press Enter ; you will then see some files copying on the USB drive.
Copy the files from the disc to your USB stick. After your setup reboots, complete the installation. Select option 2 and 3. This installation takes around minutes. After reboot, the computer will log in to your Windows XP user account. Find all the Windows drivers for your Asus Eee Pc from the manufacturer's drivers website. When you are done, restart the netbook and enjoy. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered.
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The files you need for the USB drive are 3rd-party codes and are downloaded from the internet. I did opt for the extra chip to expand to 2 gig, replacing the 1 gig chip with the 2 took me all of 10 minutes. Thus the first thing I did was install Windows 7 on the Asus. So far, the only thing I have found that Windows 7 did not recognize was the hard wired Ethernet jack. This was easily remedied. I went to the downloads section of the Asus website and picked out my machine, with the XP Home system.
I quickly found the LAN driver and downloaded it. Since it was a Zip all I had to do was expand it, then I went into Windows 7 device manager and found the "unrecognized" Ethernet jack. I told Windows 7 to look for a new driver, pointed it to the folder where I had unzipped it to and boom it worked. I have not had the opportunity to test the built in camera or microphones, but Windows device manager shows them as being present and fully functional.
I installed Virtual PC , and while it ran my virtual machines it was just a tad on the slow side. Not to be unusable, but a slow experience. F11 Get used to the F11 the typical shortcut , or "Full Screen" mode for your web browser. It makes browsing a very nice experience. Full Screen mode makes this pretty much irrelevant. Hide the Ribbon In Office, you can hide the ribbon toolbar by simply double clicking on one of the ribbon tabs.
When you hover over the tab the ribbon will appear. This saves a lot of real estate, but makes it quite easy to still use the ribbon.
In addition you can easily toggle the hidden mode by double clicking a tab again to unhide the ribbon. Instead you have to press the blue Fn key, then the left, right, up or down arrows to access these often used keys. Instead I use a little app called TouchCursor.
With it I can setup alternate key combos for these and other keys so that I never have to move my hands off the "home" keys on the letters. If you have any handy tips for using the small netbooks, please leave a comment with your tip or suggestion. Man I wish I have Windows 7, all I keep hearing are good things about it. I have the he with XP on it and waiting on my 2gb ram to come. I also installed win7 on my HE, as soon as it came in.
I have screen brightness, but no ability to adjust the volume with the function keys, for example. Are you experiencing this or is it a problem with my specific machine?
Thanks, Steve. Wow, I appreciated all the information. You gave us a really great look at the machine. Hey, I found a neat free tool on the internet. The tool helps people find what they are looking for at the best price. I did so, and went right onto the Win7 install DVD. Two questions : how slow is it? Mine seems ok, except for the cursor that seems to lag every 2 or 3 secs…. Guys, there are a lot of folks out there that are not aware about installing Vista or Win 7 from a USB drive. It is very simple.
Then, if your computer supports it, and the HE does, boot from the USB key and start your install just as if you are booted from a cd.
No special tricks at all. The one thing you have to do on the HE is go into the bios and where you tell it about the hard drive, you move the USB key to the top of the hard drive list.
Then upon reboot, it should boot to that drive and away you go… Good luck. I installed Win7 straight from XP, and set it up as dual-boot. For me, Vista was garbage, like Millenium Edition. I also used virtual desktops with XP. If you use an external monitor, UltraMon is a great app for easily switching modes, and other things.
I still have to test some of this stuff in 7, tho. Installed without problems, all hardware seemingly worked fine. I took the 4MB one. After downloading and extracting it, I tried having Windows automatically search for a driver for the device in the unzipped folder. I think tried running the installer the setup EXE. I would not run due to unsupported OS. The Fn function keys also work now.
Hit it again to turn it off. I really like the display, HDD capacity, battery life, and a keyboard. This is a great Netbook with all the capacity and features I could want.
The reviews told me it was good and they were right. I purchased my asus eee pc for 3 months now with xp home and it worked perfectly.
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