ASUS EEE PC Problems and Solutions

A week ago I finally purchased a ASUS eee PC 1000H, with the following specs

CPU: Intel Atom 1.66GHz
RAM: 1GB
Hard Disk: 160GB (not solid state)
Video Card: Intel Express

The mini laptop works great and smoothly, it’s very small and can be taken any where unlike other laptops that are too big to be portable. It’s perfect if you have any intention to stay connected to the internet and even for reading eBooks. However the ASUS EEE PC has some special requirements to work perfectly. The problem of not having a CD Rom will make you more dependent on flash/ethernet/WLAN to install programs and exchange data so here are some problems I ran into and how I dealt with them.

Need to Install Windows on ASUS EEE PC

To solve this problem I searched the internet and found a great way to make my flash disk (or even external hard disk) bootable and install windows xp using USB. It was very easy you just need to get to boot menu by pressing ESC and selecting the USB, for detailed information about how to make the flash bootable read this post.
One of the sub problems that you might encounter after installing WinXP this way is that you cannot install Office 2007, however after some searching I found the solution here.

The Screen is too Small and hard to read

As I use the laptop mostly to read books and update my blog so working with small unreadable fonts is no longer an option, The best thing to do in this case is increase windows font size by going to Display  Properties->Appearance->Font Size and selecting a larger font.

The hard is small in case of flash storage version

If you like to archive your data and install many programs the  flash version of the laptop is not for you. Also most flash versions come with 512mb ram, so it won’t let you run multiplr programs in the same time.

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