Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

The travellers computer

XP on Eee
XP Pro on the Eee

I finally managed to get my bargain 4GB Asus701 Eee to run with XP professional and for there to be still about 1GB of spare space after installing all my must have programmes for travelling and suffering the SP3 upgrade.

Various points of hard earned wisdom are:-

Use nLite to shrink your XP but be careful what you take out and leave in. I used substanially these notes from i64X

However, make sure you leave the Internet explorer box ticked at the compatability screen and to untick the window sound drivers in the Drivers option. (The windows default drivers seem to screw up the installation of the Asus sound stuff).

Asos Eee in Paramo Taiga fleece

Programmes I’ve installed so far are:-

So of the 3.71GB available I now have 722MB left (although I’m pretty certain Garmin will be getting deleted as its very bloatware like at 200MB).

Now to check out the battery life etc and to find WiFi connections.

And for you Linux geeks out there, I did so try to get GPSBabel running on the Asus Xandros OS but totally failed, although I did manage to get the full Linux desktop installed for a time.

All the above has probably taken about 3 solid days in time although the final nLite creation and installation was about 2 hours! Cold boot time is about 1minute.

Some of you may say what about the iPhone? My answers are:-
Its terribly fragile and as Euan knows not very water resistant!
You can only use its internal GPS / Camera.
Mine is still locked = hideous O2 roaming charges

So the trusty unlocked Treo680 will get another outing!

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Reader Comments

  1. So glad its all working… one big job done now the other smaller jobs need doing 🙂

    Thank god for skype is all i can say x x

  2. I'd love a Skype link too – and not to worry you about Robert's website, I promise! I'd love to keep in touch and hear your news.

  3. Have o2 really locked the iphone… it'd be the only handset they have locked if its true, o2 normally good at not locking their handsets, in my experience it's mainly orange and t-mobile that lock handsets.

  4. Have o2 really locked the iphone… it'd be the only handset they have locked if its true, o2 normally good at not locking their handsets, in my experience it's mainly orange and t-mobile that lock handsets.

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