Install Windows XP on the Asus Eee PCInstalling Windows XP on the Asus EEE pc using a single USB flash drive. Please note this tutorial works on all computers not just the Asus EEE PC. To complete this tutorial you need a 3. Windows XP or Windows Vista installed on your home PC. What you'll need: USB_PREP8 (alternative download)Pe. Outlook PST files are Outlook’s repositories for email, contacts, calendar information, and much more. (Not to be confused with Outlook.com or Outlook Express. Make windows 8 faster than ever, here are ultimate tips to speed up windows 8 / 8.1. If your windows 8 is running slow then simply follow these steps to. VueScan works on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 (but not Windows 2000). If you've set up a shortcut to vuescan.exe and are having problems, try double-clicking \Program. To. USB (alternative download)Bootsect. Special Note: If you use the program Nlite be sure to keep the manual installation files as the USB_prep. Extract the files in Bootsect. The next step is to extract USB_prep. Pe. To. USB. Next copy the Pe. ![]() To. USB executable into the USB_prep. Inside of the USB_prep. The window that opens will look like this: Press any key to continue. You next window will look like this: These settings are preconfigured for you all you need to do now is click start. Once the format is complete DO NOT close the window just leave everything as it is and open a command prompt from your start menu (type cmd in the search bar or run box depending on your version of windows.). Inside of the command windows go to the directory you have bootsect. Now type "bootsect. R: " NOTE R: is the drive letter for my USB stick if yours is different you need to change it accordingly. What this part does is write the correct boot sector to your USB stick, this allows your PC to boot from the USB stick without it nothing works. Please note: When running the bootsect. USB stick, if you have a window open bootsect. If all went well you should see "Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes."Now you can close this command prompt (don't close the usbprep. You window you see now should look like this: If it doesn't try pressing enter. Now you need to enter the correct information for numbers 1- 3. Press 1 and then enter. A folder browse window will open for you to browse to the location of you XP setup files (aka your cdrom drive with xp cd in)Press 2 and enter a letter not currently assigned to a drive on your PCPress 3 and enter the drive letter of your USB stick. Press 4 to start the process. The script will ask you if its ok to format drive T. This is just a temp drive the program creates to cache the windows installation files. Press Y then enter. Once it's done formating press enter to continue again, you can now see the program copying files to the temp drive it created. Once this is done press enter to continue again. Next you will see a box pop up asking you to copy the files to USB drive yes/no you want to click yes. Once the script has completed copy files a popup window asking if you would like to USB drive to be preferred boot drive U: select YES on this window. Now select yes to unmount the virtual drive. Ok we are done the hard part, close the usbprep. Now make sure your EEE pc is configured with USB as the primary boot device. Insert your USB drive and boot up the EEE. On the startup menu you have two options, select option number 2 for text mode setup. From this point on it is just like any other windows XP installation delete/recreate the primary partition on your EEE pc and format it using NTFS. Make sure you delete ALL partitions and recreate a single partition or you will get the hal. Once the text mode portion of setup is complete it will boot into the GUI mode (you can press enter after the reboot if your too excited to wait the 3. Once the GUI portion of setup is complete you will again have to boot into GUI mode this will complete the XP installation and you will end up at you XP desktop. It is very important that you DO NOT REMOVE THE USB STICK before this point. Once you can see your start menu it is safe to remove the usb stick and reboot your pc to make sure everything worked. This method has advantages over all current no cdrom methods of installing XP to the EEE. You do not have to copy setup files in DOS to the SSD and install from there. It gives you access to the recovery console by booting into text mode setup, and it gives you the ability to run repair installations of XP if you have problems later on. I hope this worked out for you and please post feedback to the comments section. Please note due to the amount of comments this article has received you must now click on "Post a Comment" below the existing comments to view the most recent feedback in a popup window. Features new to Windows XPWindows XP introduced many features not found in previous versions of Windows. User interface and appearance[edit]Graphics[edit]With the introduction of Windows XP, the C++ based software- only GDI+ subsystem was introduced to replace certain GDI functions. GDI+ adds anti- aliased 2. D graphics, textures, floating point coordinates, gradient shading, more complex path management, bicubic filtering, intrinsic support for modern graphics- file formats like JPEG and PNG, and support for composition of affine transformations in the 2. D view pipeline. GDI+ uses ARGB values to represent color. Use of these features is apparent in Windows XP's user interface (transparent desktop icon labels, drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop, shadows under menus, translucent blue selection rectangle in Windows Explorer, sliding task panes and taskbar buttons), and several of its applications such as Microsoft Paint, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, Photo Printing Wizard, My Pictures Slideshow screensaver, and their presence in the basic graphics layer greatly simplifies implementations of vector- graphics systems such as Flash or SVG. The GDI+ dynamic library can be shipped with an application and used under older versions of Windows. The total number of GDI handles per session is also raised in Windows XP from 1. Windows XP shipped with Direct. X 8. 1 which brings major new features to Direct. X Graphics besides Direct. X Audio (both Direct. Sound and Direct. Music), Direct. Play, Direct. Input and Direct. Show. Direct. 3D introduced programmability in the form of vertex and pixel shaders, enabling developers to write code without worrying about superfluous hardware state, and fog, bump mapping and texture mapping. Direct. X 9 was released in 2. Direct. 3D, Direct. Sound, Direct. Music and Direct. Show.[1] Direct. 3D 9 added a new version of the High Level Shader Language,[2] support for floating- point texture formats, Multiple Render Targets, and texture lookups in the vertex shader. Windows XP can be upgraded to Direct. X 9. 0c (Shader Model 3. Windows XP SP2. Windows XP SP3 added the Windows Imaging Component.[3]Clear. Type[edit]Animation showing the difference in font rendering with normal antialiasing vs. Clear. Type (The frame showing the latter is marked with an orange circle)Windows XP includes Clear. Typesubpixel rendering, which makes onscreen fonts smoother and more readable on liquid crystal display (LCD) screens.[4][5] Although Clear. Type has an effect on CRT monitors, its primary use is for LCD/TFT- based (laptop, notebook and modern 'flatscreen') displays. Clear. Type in Windows XP currently supports the RGB and BGR sub pixel structures. There are other parameters such as contrast that can be set via a Clear. Type Tuner powertoy that Microsoft makes available as a free download from its Typography website.[6]With Windows XP, the Start button has been updated to support Fitts's law. To help the user access a wider range of common destinations more easily from a single location, the Start menu was expanded to two columns; the left column focuses on the user's installed applications, while the right column provides access to the user's documents, and system links which were previously located on the desktop. Links to the My Documents, My Pictures and other special folders are brought to the fore. The My Computer and My Network Places (Network Neighborhood in Windows 9. Desktop and into the Start menu, making it easier to access these icons while a number of applications are open and so that the desktop remains clean. Moreover, these links can be configured to expand as a cascading menu. Frequently used programs are automatically displayed in the left column, newly installed programs are highlighted, and the user may opt to "pin" programs to the start menu so that they are always accessible without having to navigate through the Programs folders. The default internet browser and default email program are pinned to the Start menu. The Start menu is fully customizable, links can be added or removed; the number of frequently used programs to display can be set. The All Programs menu expands like the classic Start menu to utilize the entire screen but can be set to scroll programs. The user's name and user's account picture are also shown on the Start menu. Taskbar[edit]The taskbar buttons for running applications and Quick Launch have also been updated for Fitt's law. Locking the taskbar not only prevents it from being accidentally resized or moved but elements such as Quick launch and other Desk. Bands are also locked from being accidentally moved. The Taskbar grouping feature combines multiple buttons of the same application into a single button, which when clicked, pops up a menu listing all the grouped windows and their number. Advanced taskbar grouping options can be configured from the registry.[7] The user can choose to always show, always hide or hide some or all notification area icons if inactive for some time. A button allows the user to reveal all the icons. The Taskbar, if set to a thicker height also displays the day and date in the notification area. Windows Explorer[edit]There are significant changes made to Windows Explorer in Windows XP, both visually and functionally. Microsoft focused especially on making Windows Explorer more discoverable and task- based, as well as adding a number of features to reflect the growing use of a computer as a “digital hub”. Task pane[edit]The task pane is displayed on the left side of the window instead of the traditional folder tree view when the navigation pane is turned off. It presents the user with a list of common actions and destinations that are relevant to the current directory or file(s) selected. For instance, when in a directory containing mostly pictures, a set of “Picture tasks” is shown, offering the options to display these pictures as a slide show, to print them, or to go online to order prints. Conversely, a folder containing music files would offer options to play those files in a media player, or to go online to purchase music. Every folder also has “File and Folder Tasks”, offering options to create new folders, share a folder on the local network, publish files or folders to a web site using the Web Publishing Wizard, and other common tasks like copying, renaming, moving, and deleting files or folders. File types that have identified themselves as being printable also have an option listed to print the file. Underneath “File and Folder Tasks” is “Other Places”, which always lists the parent folder of the folder being viewed and includes additional links to other common locations such as “My Computer”, “Control Panel”, and “My Documents” or previously navigated locations. These change depending on what folder the user was in. Underneath “Other Places” is a “Details” area which gives additional information when a file or folder is selected – typically the file type, file size and date modified, but depending on the file type, author, image dimensions, attributes, or other details. If the file type has a Thumbnail image handler installed, its preview also appears in the "Details" task pane. For music files, it might show the artist, album title, and the length of the song. The same information is also shown horizontally on the status bar. Navigation pane[edit]The “Folders” button on the Windows Explorer toolbar toggles between the traditional navigation pane containing the tree view of folders, and the task pane. Users can also close the navigation pane by clicking the Close button in its right corner as well as turn off the task pane from Folder Options. The navigation pane has been enhanced in Windows XP to support "simple folder view" which when turned on hides the dotted lines that connect folders and subfolders and makes folders browsable with single click while still keeping double clicking on in the right pane. Single clicking in simple folder view auto expands the folder and clicking another folder automatically expands that folder and collapses the previous one. Grouping and sorting[edit]Windows XP introduced a large number of metadataproperties[8] which are shown as columns in the "Details" view of Explorer, in the new Tiles view in Explorer, on the Summary tab in a file's properties, in a file's tooltip and on the Explorer status bar when a single file is selected. Users also gain the ability to sort by any property which is turned on in "Details" view.
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