Comments on: Eee 900 Now Running XP SP3

By: The Dreaming

The Dreaming — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:40:44 +0000

Just got my 900 yesterday and I ran into the problem of how to install sp3 on it. I saw your blog post and managed to do it by moving the paging file from the c: to the d: drive. I then removed the uninstall file for sp2 off the c: and rerouted all the tmp files to the d: I cleared about 1.8g of space. I then downloaded sp3 from microsoft’s website and installed it using the d: as the uninstall drive location. It all went beautifully. I’m amazed at the performance of a simple 900 celerom processor and only 1gb of ram. I’m planning of also purchasing a 16gb sdhc card as well and moving my documents there.

By: mconnick

mconnick — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:54:12 +0000

See the “Eee 900 at Work – And The Winner Is…” posting for how I installed Project 2007.

Michael

By: PYX

PYX — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:49:12 +0000

Hi, were u able to install microsoft office 2007? if so, can you teach me how? it seems to cancel all the time.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:09:27 +0000

You have got a new friend !! It helped me big time. My family owes you a lot of “Dad time -great quality time…)
No more frustration. I have all I need and still plenty of room to play.
Appretiate your Good samaritan Spirit.
Jorge (from Brazil)

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:03:18 +0000

Thanks, fo the advice it was useful!!

By: RCO

RCO — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:19:14 +0000

Hello. I was wondering if i could move my Program files main folder to my SD card, right? Cause i have an older version of asus eee pc, the first one, which only has 1 hard drive the 4gb one (-.-)!

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:41 +0000

Many thanks, this has undoubtedly saved me many, many hours of frustration. I got my eee900 today and have spent the afternoon getting XP installed (sadly the linux verson didn’t really cut the mustard).

A note to anyone who is still struggling to free up space on their 4gig drive after a fresh install of XP – try disabling the page file. Google search should hook you up.

Thanks again!

By: Rene

Rene — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:04:45 +0000

Many thanks for this information

René (Belgium)

By: Rob Evans

Rob Evans — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:01:13 +0000

great post, helped me loads..thanks!

writing this now on my Asus 900, XP with SP3 installed thanks to your guide!

ps. best wishes to you and your wife

By: larry

larry — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:01:49 +0000

Many thanks for posting this!!! You don’t realise how much you’ve helped as I was getting so frustrated that I was even tempted to return this Asus eee. Didn’t expect to have this kind of problem on a 20GB laptop. Thanks again