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wodin · 06-02-2009, 03:04 PM

My 1000HE arrived yesterday, two days early WOOHOO!

I started it up just to see if there was a restore partition, and of course was forced to go through the WinXP setup. Once I found out that there wasn’t a restore utility, I shut it down, replaced the RAM and Hard Drive, set the bios to boot from the external DVD and installed Windows 7. There are a few issues that are addressed here, but mostly everything went smoothly.

I haven’t tried everything yet, but it looks like I pretty much have the same functionality that I had with WinXP, and Windows 7 runs pretty well.

So far I’ve installed MS Office Standard, an old version of PhotoShop that I’ve been using for years, PDANet (which doesn’t seem to work), and most of the Asus utilities that came on the CD. I still have to install MS Project, and I’ll have a functional machine.

I’m considering getting a Broadband USB dongle and the local cellular Broadband service ($189 for the dongle and $34/month for the service), but I’ll try to get PDANet working first as that would alleviate those expenses.

06-02-2009, 03:04 PM	#147
wodin Illiterate Posts: 10,279 Karma: 37848716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Sandwich Isles Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro	My 1000HE arrived yesterday, two days early WOOHOO! I started it up just to see if there was a restore partition, and of course was forced to go through the WinXP setup. Once I found out that there wasn’t a restore utility, I shut it down, replaced the RAM and Hard Drive, set the bios to boot from the external DVD and installed Windows 7. There are a few issues that are addressed here, but mostly everything went smoothly. I haven’t tried everything yet, but it looks like I pretty much have the same functionality that I had with WinXP, and Windows 7 runs pretty well. So far I’ve installed MS Office Standard, an old version of PhotoShop that I’ve been using for years, PDANet (which doesn’t seem to work), and most of the Asus utilities that came on the CD. I still have to install MS Project, and I’ll have a functional machine. I’m considering getting a Broadband USB dongle and the local cellular Broadband service ($189 for the dongle and $34/month for the service), but I’ll try to get PDANet working first as that would alleviate those expenses.