Asus eee 701 windows xp

Firstly disable System Restore. While a handy feature if ever your Windows goes belly up, I have never used it and it can take up precious space. Secondly, remove unwanted System Components.

Thirdly, reduce virtual memory. Click Settings , and click the Advanced tab. Down the bottom is the Virtual Memory section. Click Change. I set mine to custom size of minimum MB and maximum of MB. This will drastically increase the free space on your SSD. Fifth, do Disk Clean up on the c: drive by right clicking on it and selecting Disk Cleanup , this will get rid of any left over temp files.

Finally, do a Disk Compress on the c: drive by right clicking on it and tick the Compress drive to save disk space box. This took a while to do and it came up a few times asking what to do with certain files.

Some of these steps will need repeating from time to time to clear out anything that accumulates. However, in general your drive should stay well within the limit required by Windows to allow you to use it without any hassles and without that annoying warning about low disk space.

After completing the above tasks and a few days of use my sons EeePC still has 1. While this was done for a 4 GB EeePC, most of these tips will work fine for other machines with smaller hard drives or if you are simply trying to free up some space.

Low End Mac is funded primarily through donations. Then the boot was normal - strange. If you boot from the stick, you will first see a boot menu.

Select 1 to start the XP-install. Now the XP install will hopefully start. Install XP as normal. After the first reboot press again ESC to select the stick again as the boot-device. Then select "2" from the menu, to continue the install. The Photo Manager took its sweet time loading large image files, however.

Getting online with the Eee PC via Wi-Fi was pretty painless; once you set up a profile and enter the encryption key, the notebook will automatically connect to that network the next time you boot up. Although surfing wasn't quite as zippy as it is on our ThinkPad, it was still plenty fast.

The device had no problems handling Web 2. We encountered a screen-resolution issue with the new Yahoo Mail, but we still got it to work. Overall performance was pretty snappy, even though this machine uses a Celeron processor. Most apps loaded quickly, and the MB of RAM is more than sufficient for an operating system with such little overhead.

A mere 4GB of storage space tells you that the Eee PC isn't going to be your primary digital media vault out of the box, but you can easily augment that capacity with an external drive. Plus, that 4GB solid state drive can withstand being dropped by Junior.

Not surprisingly, the device wouldn't load music from our iPhone, but the Eee PC did charge it. Eee PC owners will be pleasantly surprised with how well this tiny machine can double as a desktop replacement. We connected the device to a inch ViewSonic monitor and used the built-in utility to scale the resolution up to x pixels, and the resulting picture was nice and sharp.

This notebook lasted the rated 3. That's not nearly as good as the five-plus hours of endurance offered by the best ultraportable notebooks. Bonus: The Eee PC's power adapter is even smaller than what most notebooks in this weight class ship with; it's not much bigger than a cell phone charger. Although there's a lot to like about the Eee PC, there are some telltale signs here that the device may have been rushed to market.

Take the webcam, which is launched under the Play menu. We were able to record footage from within the webcam app, but couldn't get it to work with either the preloaded Skype program or Pidgin instant messaging program, and with good reason: Asus is still working on drivers for the webcam, which it says will be released early next year. Finding and adding applications could also be more intuitive. When we attempted to update Skype after being asked if we wanted to do just that from within the app, the Skype icon ceased to work from the main menu.

Also, we didn't see any new applications we could add, although Asus promises to certify applications as they become available and make them available to users via software updates.

The intrepid can install applications themselves, but you'll have to dig into the File Manager and launch them manually each time.