1. Installed Windows XP SP2
- This image has only IE and Windows XP, nothing more. No themes, no nothing . You can make your own copy with your original Windows XP SP2 CD and nLite.

2. Installed drivers the manual way.
- I don’t like installers: leave garbage of logs and programs that i’ll never use (like Realtek manager, just waste memory and an icon in the taskbar). The only drivers I used with an installer were the sound (you MUST use the installer) and the chipset.

3. Install XPize
- This wonderful utility will change a lot of icons, including the theme and the startup screen. It looks gorgeous!
http://www.xpize.net/

4. Shutdown time
- To reduce the shutdown time, we need to modify a registry file. Open regedit and go to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ SYSTEM/ CurrentControlSet/ Control
When you left click the CONTROL folder, settings will appear on your right. Edit “WaitToKillServiceTimeout” to 5000, that’s a good setting. Reboot and the settings works.

5. Remove the pagefile
-This is for the normal wearing of the drive in the EEE. (Thanks to Qatz!)
Open regedit and search for this string:
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PagingFiles”
Double click it and delete everything inside of “Value Data:”
Reboot your system and manually delete “C:\pagefile.sys”.
Delete the pagefile, how? On the explorer, click in Tools, then Folder Options, then View, select Show hidden folders and files” and uncheck “Hide operating system files (recomended)”. Now you can delete the file.
In my opinion, ill suggest to use from 250 to 500mb in pagefile, im trying that and i want to test if everything is ok

6. Move My documents
- Right click on My Documents, then properties, then MOVE, select a folder in your SD card, and you’re ready.

7. CCleaner
- This program eliminates all temp files, including web pages, etc, all in 2 clicks, Right click on the Recycle bin, and a left click “Run CCleaner”.
www.ccleaner.com

8. 7-zip
- Like WinRAR, but light-weight and open source!
www.7-zip.org

9. ASUS ACPI
- This program is to control the volume and WiFi under Windows. Install it

10. FoxIt PDF Reader
- PDF Reader, just like Adobe. It’s free, and light-weight.
www.foxitsoftware.com

11. Remove unwanted apps running at startup
- Run “msconfig”, then go to “Start”, then deselect ALCMTR, reader_sl (if you use Adobe Reader), AsTray (a tray from Asus, don’t know it’s function), RTHDCPL, and SkyTel.

12. Use Tim’ Freeware Power Center
- Small utility to show the battery status on a nice little bar
www.northro.com/pw.7z

13. Auto hide tray icons
- Right click on the start bar, then properties. Check “Hide inactive icons” then go to customize. Ill recomend hide everything except MSN Messenger and wireless.

14. Activate cache in your SD card.
- I dont know if actually works, but I did it. Go to My PC, then select the SD Card and right click, then properties. Then go to hardware, select “USB 2.0 Card Reader” , then properties. Select directives, and check “Optimize for performance”.

15. Reflash your bios.
- If you got the original 0204, I suggest you reflash it to 0204, but of this link. It will activate USB 2.0 and the webcam will work on Skype and Messenger.
http://rapidshare.com/files/67739813/701-ASUS-0204.zip
or
www.northro.com/701-ASUS-0204.zip

Hope you like my little tweak guide!

Any suggestions, are welcome

UPDATE 1:

16. Orchesta Sound Scheme
- I love the sound of this theme, try it yourself!
(Ill upload it on the night).

UPDATE 2:
Download the Intel video drivers instead of using the ASUS one!
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ … p;lang=eng

UPDATE 3:
New mirror for the bios

The Asus Eee comes with a dormant window manager called IceWM. (A window manager is a graphical user interface that controls placement and appearance of windows within an operating system). By simply editing a text file, one can gain access to a world of window and taskbar settings, and can also enable a Start Menu. This document will focus primarily on activating the Start Menu, but later on we will add how-to’s for other settings.

Enabling the IceWM Start Menu in Easy Mode

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Copying and editing preferences file in Terminal

This will involve creating a folder in your /home/user directory and copying an existing preferences text file over to that new directory. This preferences file contains many, many interesting settings but for now we will simply focus on enabling the Start Menu.

1. Open your Terminal using the keyboard combination Ctrl-Alt-T.

2.1) Type the following commands, as shown in the screenshot below.

/home/user> mkdir ~/.icewm
/home/user> cp /etc/X11/icewm/preferences /home/user/.icewm

3. Now, from here you can simply edit the file and be done with it if you happen to know how, but if you are new to using the command line you might wish to verify that the file was actually copied. Then, assuming you navigate to the new directory first as shown below, you would enter the command nano preferences.

/home/user> cd .icewm
/home/user> ls
/home/user> nano preferences

4. Now you should be looking at your newly copied IceWM preferences file in Nano.

5. Using the cursor key, navigate to the following line and change the zero to a 1 as shown below.

6. Now you can hit the Ctrl-X key combination, press “Y” to save, then press <enter> to save the name as ‘preferences’.

7. That’s it! Now you can press the key combination Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart X (restarting your Eee is unnecessary) and you will see a Start Menu.

Copying and editing preferences file in File Manager

1. Open the Work Tab

2. Open File Manager

3. Click “View”, “Show Hidden Files”

4. Click “View, “Show All File Systems”

5. In the left-hand pane, click “My Home” and create a hidden folder entitled .icewm

6. In the left-hand pane, navigate from “All File Systems” to /etc/X11/icewm

7. In the right-hand pane, click Ctrl-A to select all files

8. Click Ctrl-C to copy to the clipboard

9. In the left-hand pane, select My Home, .icewm and click Ctrl-V to paste from the clipboard

10. Right click on the file named “preferences” and choose “Open With…” → Text Editor.

11. Find the line “TaskBarShowStartMenu”, change the value from 0 to 1.

12. Save the file and press the key-combination Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart X (restarting your Eee is unnecessary).

Changing the time format to AM/PM

1. In the same preferences file discussed above, scroll down to the section titled “Clock Time Format” and look at the TimeFormat value as shown below.

2. Change the TimeFormat to read as follows

TimeFormat="%I:%M %p"

3. Now save your changes and restart X (or restart your Eee if you wish).

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Setting Up a More Useful Start Menu

File to edit is menu in /home/user/.icewm

# - anything after # in the line is comment

prog - is what will appear in your menu

separator - is line between groups

menu - group folder

restart - Restarting another window manager

menufile - special entry which house the shortcut names you placed in the toolbar

menuprog - ?

Some sample program entry :

format : prog “title” icon_name program_executable options

Games

prog "Potato Guy" ktuberling ktuberling -caption "Potato Guy"

Utility

prog "Control Panel" konqueror konqueror
prog "File Manager" Icon XandrosFileManager
prog "File Manager (Root)" Icon kdesu "XandrosFileManager --caption 'File Manager (ROOT)' --icon xfm_root"
prog "Text Editor" kwrite kwrite
prog "Screen Shot" ksnapshot ksnapshot
prog "Remote Desktop" krdc krdc
prog "Synaptic Package" synaptic kdesu synaptic