Win 7 on an Asus Eee

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I recently fixed my sisters Asus Eee 1000H netbook. The hdd was corrupt therefore I replaced it and managed to get it up and running. It has a 1.6Ghz atom cpu and I upgraded the ram to 2GB.

I thought I'd try Win 7 - 32 bit, but it seems too bloated. After a fresh install, if I check performance in task manager, you can see the CPU usage jumping up and down and nothing is even being used.

Is there a way optimise Win 7 for netbooks? Can I reduce the installation size and possibly remove a lot of the stuff from Windows (e.g. language packs) that are not required? Anyone using Win 7 on an old-ish netbook and finding it runs well?
 
It's worth nailing down the process that's causing the CPU spike. If it's something transient like Windows Update then the problem will go away.

Those Atoms are garbage but I can't say personally I've noticed a night and day difference between XP and Windows 7 on those netbooks. You could run the basic theme and get rid of any third party AV you might be running on there.
 
Try a lightweight linux OS, I'd imagine its basically for facebook and youtube type use. Something like elementary OS is lightweight, fast and really good looking/clean/tidy

If thats still to much there is a OS called JoliOS which is completely cloud based very similar to ChromeOS, basically all the apps you can install are from google addons for chrome, which is suprisingly quite a lot (Including full suites similar to MS Office)

Defo go linux though, its not hard to use/install and they are incredibly lightweight compare to Windows.

Elementary Luna OS
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RoganTheGypo said:
Try a lightweight linux OS, I'd imagine its basically for facebook and youtube type use. Something like elementary OS is lightweight, fast and really good looking/clean/tidy

If thats still to much there is a OS called JoliOS which is completely cloud based very similar to ChromeOS, basically all the apps you can install are from google addons for chrome, which is suprisingly quite a lot (Including full suites similar to MS Office)

Defo go linux though, its not hard to use/install and they are incredibly lightweight compare to Windows.

Elementary Luna OS
192076-elementary-os-0-2-luna-daily-builds--2427133107891045075.jpg
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That has to be one of the best looking Linux desktops / themes I've seen. I'll keep an eye on that with interest!
 
I've never actually used Linux before, ever.

I remember years ago using a program for win xp which basically allowed me to reduce the installation size a fair bit, as you could select which bloatware to remove when making the installation disc. Anyone done similar for win 7?

Well definitely look into the Linux option. Is it worth spending money on a small ssd when it has such a weak cpu such as the atom?
 
Eee 1000H should be able to run Win7.

Pay attention to post #2. Windows often needs 30 minutes or so to sort itself out after major updates have been applied.
 
Windows 7 does run fine on the Eee. Give W7 an hour to itself after you've completed all the updates. After that, after starting up I'd say W7 needs about two minutes after the desktop to settle down - including loading of ESET.

A cheap SSD drive makes things so much quicker and is one of the best things I installed in my Eee.
 
Thanks for the tip guys. I installed all the Win 7 updates and it took quite a while, had to restart several times, but once it was all done and I left it for a while the performance seems to have improved a lot. The cpu usage now consistently floats around the 5% mark rather then spiking up to 80%+

Will give it a test run later today but it seems a lot better now. :)
 
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